82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Last Saturday, Dr Halina Postek from the Education Department laid flowers on behalf of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Muranów. The ceremony was attended by representatives of the Jewish community, veterans, Righteous Among the Nations, state and local government officials, diplomats, representatives of Polish cultural institutions, as well as residents of the capital city.
The ceremony was organised by the Social and Cultural Society of Jews in Poland.
According to Stroop’s report, nearly 7,000 people were murdered by the Germans on the spot during the uprising, and almost 7,000 were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp. In turn, about 6,000 Jews were killed during the fighting. Nearly 36,000 people, mainly civilians, were deported to labour and concentration camps in the General Government (mostly to Trawniki, Poniatowa and KL Lublin). There, in the following months, they tried to continue functioning and survive, but most of them fell victim to the operation codenamed ‘Erntefest’ (‘Harvest Festival’), carried out on 3-4 November 1943 in the labour camps in Trawniki and Poniatowa and in KL Lublin.
