Img. ID: 311307

Memorial Name

First Ghetto Monument

Who is Commemorated?

Fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Description:

A circular paved area has a red sandstone disk in the center. Overlapping the paved circle is a smaller circle – raised by three steps – which leads to a bigger sandstone disk that is inscribed with memorial inscriptions in Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew.

This disk is slightly tilted in the direction of the former (now gone) Ghetto gate, through which German tanks attempted to enter the Ghetto, and marks the site of the first armed clash of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19, 1943.

Inscriptions

Polish

19.IV.1946
TYM KTORZY POLEGLI
W BEZPRZYKŁADNIE
BOHATERSKIEJ WALCE
O GODNOŠČ I WOLNOŠČ
NARODU ŽYDOWSKIEGO
O WOLNA POLSKE
O WYZWOLENIE CZŁOWIEKA
ŽYDZI POLSCY

Translation: To the memory of those who died in an unparalleled and heroic struggle for the dignity and freedom of the Jewish nation, for free Poland, and for the liberation of mankind - Jews of Poland.

Hebrew

לגבורים
שנפלו חללים
 במלחמתם הענקית בעד
כבודו והרוחו של העם
העברי בעד שחרור פולין
.וגאולת האדם

שרידי יהודי
פולין

Translation: To the heroes who fell as martyrs in their war for the honor and spirit of the Hebrew people, for the liberation of Poland and for the redemption of man. / The Remnants of Polish Jews

Yiddish

 די געפאלענע אין
ביישפיללאו - העלדישן קאמף
פארן כבוד און פרייהייט
פון יידישן פאלק פאר
א פריי פולין. פאר
דער באפרייאונג
פון מענטש

די פוילישע יידן

Translation: Those who fell in the heroic struggle for the honor and freedom of the Jewish people, for the liberation of the people, for free Poland. For freedom pf the people / Polish Jews

Commissioned by

Jewish survivors in Poland