Marchers to commemorate Jews deported from Warsaw ghetto

A March of Remembrance was set to be held in the Polish capital on Monday to mark 77 years since the Germans began deporting Jews from the World War II-era Warsaw Ghetto.

A section of the historic wall of the Warsaw Ghetto at 62 Złota Street. Photo: Adrian Grycuk [CC BY-SA 3.0 pl (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en)]

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The city’s Jewish Historical Institute was organising the event to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of what is known as the Warsaw Ghetto liquidation operation.

Marchers were expected to pay homage to the 300,000 or so Warsaw Jews who were murdered by the Nazi Germans at the time.

On July 22, 1942, the Germans began deporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp. Over the next two months, from 5,000 to 7,000 Jews were transported every day by train to Treblinka, where they were exterminated.

The Warsaw Ghetto, established in April 1940, was the largest of the many ghettos which the Germans set up across Poland to isolate the Jewish population after invading the country in September 1939.

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Source: IAR, jhi.pl