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EUROPE
Also see Majdanek,
Oswiecim (Auschwitz) ,
Terezin and
Treblinka.
BELCHATOW, POLAND
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This monument was erected in 1992 in the
former Jewish cemetery in Belchatow. The site is now a
public park. |
Memorial
plaque |
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Some of this monument was made up of
fragments of matzevot. |
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BIALYSTOK, POLAND
Memorial plaque |
Inscription on
the memorial
commemorating the destruction of the
great Synagogue |
Memorial to the
destruction of the
great Synagogue |
Memorial to the
heroes, i.e. those
who resisted, of the Bialystok ghetto |
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Memorial to the
victims of the destruction of
the Bialystok ghetto |
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BOGUSZE, POLAND |
Bogusze was the site
of a "transit camp," where the Nazis "stored" Jews,
Russians, and political prisoners waiting to be transported
to the concentration and extermination camps. |
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Bogusze memorial
plaque.
The inscription reads:
"Place soaked with blood:
11,070 prisoners of war and civilians were murdered by
Hitler's troops
in the years 1942-1944.
Honor to their memory!"
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A second memorial.
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"In
honor of the victims of Hitler's fascist officers and
troops: the Russian army, members of the Movement of
Defiance, prisoners of the Bogusze concentration camp,
Poles, Italians, Frenchmen, and Lithuanians who died at the
hands of Hitler's executioners in the years 1941-1945.
People of the District of Grajewo."
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Another memorial to
the Bogusze Transit Camp. |
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"July 22, 1944 - July
22, 1959.
Here, in an area of 50 hectares,
from the years 1941 to 1945,
stood a place where people from different nations were
executed, a Nazi concentration camp.
No more war!
People of the District of Grajewo."
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CZESTOCHOWA, POLAND
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Plaque on a wall at
the square of the Czestochowa Ghetto Heroes |
"In memory of the Jews of
Czestochowa, slain by the Nazi murderers and in memory of
the heroes of the Jewish resistance organisation killed in
action during the years of German occupation in 1939-1945." |
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DOBRA, POLAND
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Memorial at the
Dobra cemetery. |
The memorial is
inscribed in Polish, Hebrew and English.
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inscription states:
"To honour and commemorate the history of the Jewish
residents of Dobra, in particular the victims of the Nazi
occupation between 1939
and 1945. |
Their
descendants
The Dobra Town Council
with the local Government of Dobra Town inhabitants."
Dobra
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IZBICA, POLAND
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This
memorial is located in the front of the Jewish cemetery in
Izbica. 4000 Jewish residents of Izbica were either murdered
at the cemetery or at the Belzec or Sobibor death camps. |
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KAZIMIERZ DOLNY, POLAND
It is very sad that in many towns Jewish matzevot (gravestones)
were removed from local cemeteries and used as paving stones to
line floors or streets in the town. This was the case in
Kazimierz. In 1983 such stones were removed from the town's
Franciscan monastery (once used by the Gestapo) and, since they
could no longer be returned to the local cemetery, were used to
create a memorial wall. As in the original cemetery, the men's and
women's matzevot occupied opposite ends of the wall. The memorial
sits atop a knoll and is characterized by a large vertical crack
that is said to symbolize the fact that so many Jewish lives were
disrupted, not to mention the breakup of the local Jewish
community. The stones that are rounded and contain carvings of
candleholders or menorahs occupy the very top of the memorial.
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KRAKOW, POLAND
Memorial plaque to
Jewish martyrs of Cracow
at Synagoga Remuh |
Wall containing fragments
of many matzevot |
Magnified view of
matzevot fragments |
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KRASNOSIELC, POLAND
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Krasnosielc
synagogue
Memorial
plaques |
This synagogue, according
to documents, was built in the late 1800's to serve the
towns of Krasnosielc and Rozan. The street on one side was
renamed Jewish Street after its construction. To save money,
the second story interior, reserved for the women of the
congregation, was reached by an exterior stairway.
Plaques
were placed on the wall of the synagogue by the Association
of Former Krasnosielc Residents in Israel and USA, 1996. |
"This building was the
synagogue of 2000 members of the Jewish community of
Krasnosielc until World War II.
Here on the night of 6 IX 1939 more than 50 prominent
members of the community were brutally murdered by the
Nazi-Germans and their bodies buried in the adjoining yard.
The remainder of the community was then driven out through
acts of terror to a bitter fate." |
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The grave of the
murdered Jews
of Krasnosielc
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This gravesite (left) was finally
found in 1991 after a local resident, whose family was
forced to bury the bodies, shared the information with hired
investigators.
The plaque on
the wall relates to this site of the murdered Jews on the
night of Sept 5,1939.
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KUTNO, POLAND
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Holocaust memorial, with graffiti, in a field in Kutno by
the cemetery. |
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LODZ, POLAND
Memorial at the old
Radegast railway station,
from where nearly 150,000 Jews
were sent to Nazi death camps
during World War II.
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Radegast railway
station
and railroad cars used to
transport Jews to the concentration camps. |
Holocaust survivors
looking out from car. |
Lodz Cemetery
shooting pits,
where the last Jews above ground in Lodz had dug their own
graves when the Soviets liberated the city. They were saved
and the pits have remained as mute reminders of the moment.
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Radegast crematorium |
Memorial plaque to
Jakubowicz family
of Lodz |
Lodsche Shaddai |
Memorial inside
crematorium.
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Memorial at cemetery |
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Memorial at cemetery |
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LOMZA, POLAND
Memorial plaque to Jews
who lived
in Lomza
during World War II, and
is dedicated at the site
Great Synagogue of Lomza
which was destroyed during the war.
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Memorial plaque at
New Lomza Cemetery.
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LUKOW, POLAND
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Memorial to the Jews
of
Łuków
at the site of the
old cemetery. |
During World War II, the
Jewish community in Łuków was decimated. Before the Jews of
Łuków disappeared, the town was a transit point on the way
to the gas chambers for thousands of Jews from various
regions of Poland and even from abroad. In May 1942, over
2,000 Jews from Slovakia were sent to Łuków.
The first mass murders of the Jews of Łuków
started in March 1942, when the Germans shot forty-seven of
them. Next, forty-nine were killed on the 31st of April.
During that summer, Jews were prohibited to leave the town.
Everyone who broke this ban was killed.
The systematic
liquidation of the Jewish community in Łuków started on 5th
October 1942. At that time, 5,000 people were sent to the
death camp in Treblinka and also five-hundred were killed on
the spot. At that time, the last rabbi (since 1937) of the
Jewish community in Łuków, Aaron Note Freiberg, was killed.
Next, two-thousand people were transported to Treblinka on
the 8th of October. After that action, the size of the
ghetto in Łuków was reduced. The Jews from the neighborhood
villages of Kock, Wojcieszków, Adamów, Stanin, Tuchowicz,
Trzebieszów and Ulan were next sent to the town. On 26-27
October and 7-11 November, three-thousand people were
transported to Treblinka and two-hundred Jews were shot in
front of the town hall and at the Jewish cemetery.
The Jews who were still alive
were returned to the ghetto in December 1942, their living
area confined to just a few houses. The ghetto was finally
liquidated on 2nd May 1943. In this way then, the Jewish
community in Łuków had completely disappeared.
plaque on left: "In
commemoration of the Jewish partisans and victims murdered
by the Nazis in Lukow and vicinity in the years 1939-1949."
(the date, 1949, shown here in Polish, should be 1943. This
is inscribed correctly in the Hebrew/Yiddish translation.) |
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OZAROW, POLAND
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Their blood has been spilled as water…and alas not buried.
Psalm 79:3
"In Sacred memory of the Jewish martyrs of Ozarow and
surrounding communities who sanctified the Holy Name of The
Almighty in life and in death, and who tragically perished in
the flames of the Holocaust. May their hallowed lives be for
all generations to come a beacon of light, strength and
inspiration."
Dedicated Tishrei 5762-Oct. 2001
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PLONSK, POLAND
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Monument to David
Ben-Gurion, native of Plonsk, Poland |
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Memorial plaque on
Ben-Gurion's former house |
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PULAWY, POLAND
Approach to monument
on grounds of the
old Jewish cemetery
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Monument at Jewish
Cemetery in Pulawy
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Close-up of
Cemetery Plaque
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Memorial Stone on
Lubielski Street
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Close-up View of
Memorial
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Close-up of
Cemetery Plaque |
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PULTUSK, POLAND
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Pultusk memorial and
children's playground
left: plaque installed on a wall at 16 Kotlarska Street, the old
Jewish community building, in memory of the Jews who died at the
hands of the Nazis from 1939 to 1945. The plaque was put up in
1993 and was immediately vandalized.
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Monument to
former Jewish
residents of Pultusk |
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SEJNY, POLAND
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Some perspective on
the location
of the Sejny memorial. This monument stands in a
non-descript location atop a hill outside of town, among a
small number of mostly broken matzevot lying in a field of
overgrown grass and weeds, the inscriptions faded over time,
each
marked only with a Star of David.
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STAWISKI, POLAND
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Memorial in the woods outside of Stavisk [Stawiski],
"This is a place of martyrdom of 700 Jewish inhabitants of Stavisk,
murdered by Nazis, July 1941."
Inscription date 22 July 1964 |
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SUWALKI, POLAND |
This
memorial wall was built from headstones that were salvaged
from the destroyed Suwalki Jewish cemetery. |
"Jewish
Cemetery destroyed by Hitler's troops in the years
1940-1945, Suwalki."
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"This tombstone of
remembrance is to the ones who died who rest here in this
house of life, and to the other holy souls who were killed
at the hands of the murderers. God will avenge their blood.
May their souls be bound up in eternal life." (Translation
provided by Kathryn Wallach.) |
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WACHOCK, POLAND
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In
1939, five-hundred Jews lived among approximately 1,900
Poles in Wachock. Only twenty-four survived the Holocaust.
The Jewish Cemetery of Wachock was restored through the
efforts of Rafael Feferman, one of the shtetl’s twenty-four
surviving Jews, and it is dedicated to the memory of the six
million, among them Mr. Feferman’s parents and siblings who
were deported to Treblinka in 1942. In the center of the
cemetery stands a newly erected eight foot wide granite
monument that reads in part: "We honor the sacred memory of
the Jewish victims of Wachock and surrounding communities
who died in the Holocaust. We vow never to forget the Jewish
men, women and children whose lives were cut short. We weep
for what was lost. We shall never forget." |
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WARSZAWA, POLAND
Memorial to fallen Polish
Jewish soldiers on
Gesia Cemetery grounds
at Warszawa cemetery
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Warszawa
Uprising Memorial
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Bronze panel at Warszawa
Ghetto Monument |
Monument to the Heroes
of the Ghetto bronze relief |
Another bronze relief
at Monument |
Map of former
Warszawa ghetto |
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Umschlagpatz Monument;
This is where many people
were put onto cattle cars and
subsequently sent to Treblinka |
Plaque at the
Umschlagpatz Monument |
Mila Street 18 Bunker;
In former Jewish district,
under which lay the bunker
of the ZOB (Jewish Armed
Resistance Organization)
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Bunker monument |
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WYSZKOW, POLAND
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"These stones are all that remain of the once vibrant
community that played an important role in the history of
Wyszkow. They are gathered here in tribute to that history
and in memory of the Jews
of Wyszkow who perished in the Holocaust." (1997)
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ZAWIERCIE, POLAND
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"Here
are buried the remains of our brothers and sisters murdered
by the Nazi beasts during the final extermination action in
Zawiercie -- August 1943...Association of former Jewish
citizens of Zawiercie & vicinity -- Year 1998." |
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