Fragment Of Ghetto Wall
Fragment Of Ghetto Wall
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TalTalK
Kefar Sava, Israel229 contributions
Jun 2015 • Friends
Sadly for history, this is the only portion of the ghetto wall that is left. To see it, enter from Zlota street, but number 62 and not 60 as is listed on TripAdvisor! It is a shopping strip and 62 us between two parts of the building in a courtyard. There are two sections of the wall to see: One os to your right immediately after passing through and the other is when turning left. The courtyard has signs to direct you to the fragments.
Written June 4, 2015
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Tigs_on_tour
London9 contributions
As noted elsewhere, the location of this is not too obvious. The fragment of wall runs between 55 Sienna St and 62 Zlota St. The 2 streets run parallel to each other and we found the easiest way to access the wall was to enter at 62 Zlota St. This involved entering through a very unassuming looking gate (which was open) which leads round to the back of some flats. Passing through a second gateway you will see the wall on your right hand side. It really is well worth any detour you have to make to see this chilling fragment of the Ghetto Wall.
Written August 21, 2008
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Hawk470
Baltimore, MD2,687 contributions
Jun 2019
Tucked into a courtyard between two nondescript apartment buildings on Zlota Street a couple of blocks from the Westin hotel, the Fragment of the Ghetto Wall is a little hard to find, but it is the perfect place to begin your exploration of the remains of the Ghetto, which includes nearby remaining pre-War buildings, some pock-marked by bullets, and the Footbridge of Memory which linked the larger and smaller Ghettos. A perfect starting point because you can stand in its shadow, see its height, touch the construction and, hear the sounds of life going on as usual on the other side as those imprisoned in the Ghetto no doubt could back in those terrible days in the early 1940s.
On one level, it is just a brick wall like so many others around the world. On another level, it is the embodiment of mankind’s inhumanity. Tall, but not so tall that you could not think of scaling it. Thick, but not so thick that you could not think of breaking it down. But tall enough and thick enough to have imprisoned tens of thousands who were then murdered. The somber and evocative experience is tactile and physical, rather than wholly one of the imagination, and all the more powerful for it.
On one level, it is just a brick wall like so many others around the world. On another level, it is the embodiment of mankind’s inhumanity. Tall, but not so tall that you could not think of scaling it. Thick, but not so thick that you could not think of breaking it down. But tall enough and thick enough to have imprisoned tens of thousands who were then murdered. The somber and evocative experience is tactile and physical, rather than wholly one of the imagination, and all the more powerful for it.
Written October 14, 2019
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CoupleIsrael
Brisbane, Australia105 contributions
Aug 2015 • Couples
We went there after visiting the Polin Museum. U can't believe it that it is being there for such a long time and that people are living near by.Just the idea that Jewish people were stack between such walls during the second war 2 gives u the creep. U must go there to feel and understand that such things should not happen again.
Written September 5, 2015
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lizzyillustration
Jerusalem, Israel201 contributions
Mar 2015 • Business
The beautiful modern city of Warsaw was almost completely destroyed during the war and rebuilt by its tenacious residents postwar. Very little of its tragic Jewish past remains today to bear witness to the annihilation of the Jews of Warsaw.. Thus the few fragments of the wall which encircled the largest prison in Europe, Warsaw Ghetto, are not mere masonry…The walls bear witness to the enormous Jewish tragedy, the mass starvation, the brutality and suffering, of those forced to be entrapped within them..
“In October 1940 the establishment of a ghetto was announced. On November 16 the Jews were forced inside the area of the ghetto. Although a third of the city’s population was Jewish, the ghetto stood on just 2.4% of the city’s surface area. Masses of refugees who had been transported to Warsaw brought the ghetto population up to 450,000.
Surrounded by walls that they built with their own hands and under strict and violent guard, the Jews of Warsaw were cut off from the outside world. Within the ghetto their lives oscillated in the desperate struggle between survival and death from disease or starvation. The living conditions were unbearable, and the ghetto was extremely overcrowded. On average, between six to seven people lived in one room and the daily food rations were the equivalent of one-tenth of the required minimum daily calorie intake…”
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/about/03/warsaw.asp
A visit to this wall is a homage to those who suffered so terribly in the ghetto , and a commitment to preserving their memory .Highly recommended.
“In October 1940 the establishment of a ghetto was announced. On November 16 the Jews were forced inside the area of the ghetto. Although a third of the city’s population was Jewish, the ghetto stood on just 2.4% of the city’s surface area. Masses of refugees who had been transported to Warsaw brought the ghetto population up to 450,000.
Surrounded by walls that they built with their own hands and under strict and violent guard, the Jews of Warsaw were cut off from the outside world. Within the ghetto their lives oscillated in the desperate struggle between survival and death from disease or starvation. The living conditions were unbearable, and the ghetto was extremely overcrowded. On average, between six to seven people lived in one room and the daily food rations were the equivalent of one-tenth of the required minimum daily calorie intake…”
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/about/03/warsaw.asp
A visit to this wall is a homage to those who suffered so terribly in the ghetto , and a commitment to preserving their memory .Highly recommended.
Written March 21, 2015
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Marie E
Strasbourg, France146 contributions
Apr 2013 • Solo
There are 2 fragments that I found, and since most of the guides don't indicate how to find them, here is where there are located :
_ 53, Sienna street : at the back of the playground of the school
_ 62, Zlota street : in the backyard
(you could also access it via 55, Sienna street if the entry is not closed but it was when I was there, as it is a private property)
_ 53, Sienna street : at the back of the playground of the school
_ 62, Zlota street : in the backyard
(you could also access it via 55, Sienna street if the entry is not closed but it was when I was there, as it is a private property)
Written May 4, 2013
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Alessandro-Pietro
Magdeburg, Germany2,008 contributions
Oct 2018 • Business
The ghetto was razed to the ground in 1943. In the uprising of 1944 the rest of the city was badly damaged. Warsaw is now a fast growing and changing city. Where once the ghetto stood the remains of the past war decades has been demolished piece by piece to make way for modern office buildings. What was left of the ghetto wall is difficult to find and fragments could be visited at the edges of the former ghetto.
Written October 11, 2018
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esigall
Los Angeles, CA54 contributions
As others have commented, it requires some searching. The two fragments lie in courtyards between Sienna and Zlota Streets. There are two entry points; the easier is from 62 Zloty Streett where there is a archway and a small alleyway that leads to one fragment on your right; if you continue along the alleyway north you will see the next fragment also on your right. On Sienna Street the archway is marked with an address plaque simply stating "62 Sienna" and on the sidewalk opposite is a small street sign that states ghetto wall (in English and well as Polish). Just to the right of the fragment closer to Sienna is a stairwell down to a small information center and museum.
Written August 2, 2009
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Ray W
Grantham, UK284 contributions
The section of wall is located inside the courtyard of 55 Sienna, there is also another section around the corner. Each part is located next to communist flats. Well worth looking for as a piece of moving history.
Written April 8, 2008
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Miguel3B
Lisbon District, Portugal7 contributions
Aug 2015 • Family
There are not too much to see because most of the ghetto was destroyed and other buidings were built on that area. However, it is important to keep, even if small, some evidences of what happened so may such thing never happen again.
Written August 25, 2015
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Здравствуйте!! В инете нашла статью с фотографиями туриста этих мест: стена и даже пустой нетронутый дом со следами страшных событий. Статья была 2014 г. Самостоятельно отправилась туда, 2 фрагмента стены нашла, а дом- нет. Скажите, был ли этот дом? Может он просто уже реконструирован под жилой?
Written February 18, 2019
Did you know that ther were two ghettos with a bridge between? why?
Written October 9, 2017
הסיבה לכך פשוטה: בשטח הגטו עבר רחוב ראשי שלא היה ניתן לבטל אותו ולכן הרשויות חילקו את שטח הגטו לשני אזורים כשהרחוב ממשיך להיות פתוח לפולנים ולכוחות הגרמניים אך לא לאלה שנכלאו בגטו
Written October 9, 2017
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