JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. THE MONUMENT OF THE GHETTO HEROES. WARSZAWA/POLAND.

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Yom Sheni, Sivan 28, 5775. Monday, June 15, 2015.

Shalom! World.

The symboolic gesture of suppression of the uprising was blowing up the Great Synagogue on May 16, 1943. The heroic resistence of the Jews against the nazis is today commemorated by the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes.

The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes (Pomnik Bohaterow Getta) was erected in 1948, when the city of Warszawa still lay in ruins. Created by the sculptor Natan Rapaport and the architect Marek Suzin, it symbolizes the heroic defiance of the Ghetto Uprising of 1943, which was planned not as a bid for liberty but as an honourable way to die. It lasted one month.


The west side of the monument entitled "Fight", shows men, women and children holding grenades, guns and bottles of gasoline in their hands. This side of the monument symbolises the heroic uprising of insurgents.

The side entitled "March to death" represents the suffering and martyrdom of innocent victims. Copies of these reliefs are exhibited at the Yad Vashem Institute in Yerushalaym, which deals with the study of the Holocaust. 

The Waszawa monument is covered with slabs of stone ordered during the war by the germans in Sweden, as a material for monuments which were to commemorated the victory of Hitler.


Reliefs on the monument depict men, women and children struggling to flee the burning ghetto, together with a procession of Jews being driven to death camps under the threat of nazi bayonets. In front of this monument, on 7 December 1970, Willy Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany, knelt in homage to the murdered victims. Today, people come here from all over the world to remember the heroes of the Uprising.

Shalom! Aleichem.

Cultural Support:  SOUL avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Fr .

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