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Monument to the Ghetto Heroes  
   

Monument to the Ghetto Heroes

This monument shows the Ghetto Heroes fighters (mostly young people) breaking away from the burning ghetto. An injured man carries a home-made granade, and a young woman carries a gun. The back of the monument shows old people, women and children being marched to an extermination camp by Nazi guards.
Touring the Warsaw Ghetto Area

January 18th 2008
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in Warsaw during the German Occupation in World War II. Between 1941 and 1943, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps dropped the population of the ghetto from an estimated 450,000 to approximately 70,000. In 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto was the scene of the Warsaw Ghetto Upri ... read more
Europe » Poland » Masovia » Warsaw

Polish Flag Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived near the middle of the 10th century. Its golden age occurred in the 16th century. During the following century, the strengthening of the gentry and internal disorders weakened the nation. In a series of ... ... read more
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