Obj. ID: 52726
Modern Jewish Art Memorial plaque at the site of the Ghetto in Gdańsk, Poland, 2023
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Ghetto of Danzig (Gdańsk) Jews.
Description:
The monument is a metal "lectern" with a plastic plaque. The plaque bears identical inscriptions in Polish, Hebrew, English, and German, the depiction of the Red Mouse granary, and a map showing the placement of the granary and that of the plaque.
Inscription:
Polish:
W tym miejscu znajdował się spichlerz
Czerwona Mysz, w którym latem 1940 roku
niemieccy naziści utworzyli getto dla
gdańskich Żydów.
Hebrew:
באתר זה עמד אסם "העכבר האדום", בו בקחץ 1940
הנאצים הקימו גטו של בניין אחד בשביל יהודי גדנסק.
English:
The Red Mouse granary, where the German
Nazis created a ghetto for Gdańsk Jews in the
summer of 1940, stood here.
German:
An dieser Stelle befand sich der Speicher Rote
Maus, in dem die deutschen Nazis im Sommer
1940 ein Ghetto für die Danziger Juden
errichtet haben.
Commissioned by
The government of the city of Gdańsk, on the initiative of Grzegorz Kwiatkowski.
5 image(s)
sub-set tree:
From 1940, the Red Mouse Granary on the island served as the ghetto for the Danzig's remaining 600 Jews and the last stop before deportation to death camps. The building was destroyed by bombing in 1945.
The plaque was installed on the initiative of poet and musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski and unveiled on December 7, 2023.
In January 2024, the plaque was vandalized.
Hoare, Liam, "Victory for Gdansk ghetto memorial campaigners," The Jewish Chronicle, April 28, 2023, https://www.thejc.com/news/world/two-iranians-arrested-in-cyprus-for-allegedly-targeting-israeli-citizens-yrlrkcys (accessed December 10, 2023)
Kowalski, Andrzej, "Gdańsk upamiętnił dawne getto żydowskie. Odsłonięto pamiątkową tablicę," Dziennik Bałtycki, December 7, 2023, https://dziennikbaltycki.pl/gdansk-upamietnil-dawne-getto-zydowskie-odslonieto-pamiatkowa-tablice/ar/c1-18142339 (accessed December 10, 2023)
Kwiatkowski, Grzegorz, with Dorota Karas, "The forgotten ghetto in the heart of Gdansk,"The Times of Israel, October 19, 2022, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-forgotten-ghetto-in-the-heart-of-gdansk/ (accessed December 10, 2023)
Nietopiel, Aleksandra, "Było getto, jest droga. I od dzisiaj tablica pamiątkowa,"trojmiasto.pl, December 7, 2023, Było getto, jest droga. I od dzisiaj tablica pamiątkowa (accessed December 10, 2023)