Pomnik Bohaterów Getta
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The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Heroes of the Ghetto Square was unveiled on 19th April 1948, the 5th anniversary of the Ghetto Uprising. An earlier memorial, set up in April 1946, exists off Anielewicza Street (unfortunately the photographer only became aware of this monument after returning from Warsaw and we cannot show a photograph of it).
The front of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes shows ghetto fighters (mostly young people) breaking away from the burning ghetto. An injured man carries a home-made grenade, and a young woman carries a gun. The back of the monument shows old people, women and children being marched to an extermination camp by Nazi guards.
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The sculptor was Natan Rappaport and the architect Marek Suzin. The bronze sculptures were cast in Paris. The memorial is made of blocks of labradorite, a stone the Nazis ordered from Sweden in 1942 to construct a victory monument (a similar symbolic use of stone was made by the USSR when it put up its Victory Monument in Berlin using stone taken from the destroyed Reich Chancellery).
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