Monday, July 22, marks the 82nd anniversary of the start of the mass deportation of Jews from the ghetto to the Nazi German Treblinka extermination camp.
An estimated 300,000 Jews were taken to the camp's gas chambers within the course of two months.
The deportation operation ended on September 21, 1942, although trains also departed for Treblinka during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which took place from April 19 to May 16, 1943.
This year’s March of Remembrance, the 13th event of its kind, was attended by officials including Israel's ambassador to Poland, Yacov Livne, and Polish presidential aide Wojciech Kolarski.
Marchers walked along a symbolic route along the streets of Warsaw’s prewar Jewish district. Many of them carried Ribbons of Memory with the names of murdered Jews, news outlets reported.
A March of Remembrance was held in the Polish capital on Monday to mark 82 years since the Germans began deporting Jews from the World War II-era Warsaw Ghetto. Photo: PAP/Rafał Guz
The annual march started at the Polish capital's Umschlagplatz Memorial and concluded at 5 Dzielna Street, where an artistic installation was unveiled, a song was performed by a cantor and fragments of religious writings were read, state news agency PAP reported.
The event included a tribute to Jewish spiritual leaders from the Holocaust era, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
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Source: IAR, PAP