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Umschlagplatz (Warsaw, Poland)

Description: Warsaw / Poland / This was located in the Warsaw Ghetto and was where Jews gathered for deportation to the Treblinka ... more

Umschlagplatz (Warsaw, Poland) ... extermination camp.

Newest Review: ... is when there is a crowd of guide led tourists hanging around it, built in 1988 by architect Hanna Szmalenberg and sculptor Wladyslaw Klamerus, this is a dedication to 265,000 Jews which were said to have been moved for relocation the east but were in fact transported from this very point to the extermination camp "Treblinka". Umschlagplatz itself means "collection point" ... more

... in German and queues of Jews were formed here, with as many as 7,000 boarding the so-called death trains on some days. The monument itself is designed to represent an empty freight train and whilst I'm sure it was designed with good intentions, it does...more

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Umschlagplatz (Warsaw, Poland): Oh, so that's what it is! (328 words)
by - written on 11/06/09 (Very useful, 19 readings)
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Located on the corner of Ul. Stawki and Ul. Dzika in Muranow, a relatively central part of Warsaw which was once "the Jewish ghetto" lies an unassuming memorial. With people toing and froing from a nearby philosophy faculty to a nearby supermarket and the street buzzing with traffic and pedestrians at this cross roads, it's easy to walk past this stone monument. The only time it may draw attention is when there is a crowd of guide led tourists hanging around it, built in 1988 by architect Hanna Szmalenberg and sculptor Wladyslaw Klamerus, this is a dedication to 265,000 Jews which were said to have been moved for relocation the east but were in fact ... Read the complete review

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