Portion of Small Ghetto wall, Ulica Sienna 55
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This is the only significant surviving segment of ghetto wall. It formed part of the southern boundary of the Small Ghetto until 20th November 1941. Unlike most of the southern wall of the Small Ghetto, which runs east-west, this segment runs north-south (the photograph was taken facing east) and can be identified on maps as one of the walls marking a small 'Aryan' salient north of Zlota Street and west of the present Aleja Jana Pawla II. It seems likely that this is the eastern wall of this salient, and that this photograph was consequently taken from what was the 'Aryan' side.
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The wall here is about three metres (10') high, and may have been topped by an additional metre (3') of barbed wire. Many bricks came from buildings destroyed by shelling and air bombing in September 1939.
Plaques record the removal of two bricks to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, USA, in 1989 and the visit of the President of Israel in 1992.
This segment of wall is also accessible from Ulica Zlota 62.
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