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Img. ID: 564148

© Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Photographer: Kwiatkowski, Grzegorz, 2023 , (Negative/Photo.:   A634014)

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.

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Poland | Pomorskie Voivodeship | Gdańsk
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