July 22 will mark the 81st 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 will start at 6 p.m. at the Umschlagplatz, a collection point where Jews were assembled for deportation, and proceed along the streets of Warsaw’s prewar Jewish district.
The Jewish Historical Institute, which has organized the march since 2012, describes its route as a symbolic "from death to life" experience, with the participants carrying Ribbons of Memory with the names of murdered Jews.
The event will include the launch of an exhibition about Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
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Source: IAR, PAP