“Marsz Pamięci” (March of Remembrance) 2025
Yesterday, on July 22, we took part in the 2025 March of Remembrance, which for the fourteenth time passed through the streets of Warsaw to commemorate the victims of the Great Deportation Action from the Warsaw Ghetto. Together with other participants, we paid tribute to approximately 300,000 Jewish men and women who were deported from the Umschlagplatz to the Treblinka extermination camp.
Eighty-three years ago, on July 22, 1942, the Germans began the deportation operation from the Warsaw Ghetto, known as the “Great Action” or “Grossaktion”. This year’s March was dedicated to the musicians of the Warsaw Ghetto – people who created culture even in the face of the Holocaust.
The March started at the Umschlagplatz monument and followed a symbolic route “from death to life” through the streets of the former ghetto, ending in the Krasiński Garden. There, an open-air concert took place, during which we listened to compositions written by artists imprisoned in the ghetto, performed for the first time since the war. One such piece was “Arojs iz geganen a jid ojf der gas” (A Jew Went Out on the Street, 1940), a poem by Itzhak Katzenelson with music by Jakub Gladsztajn – reconstructed from sheet music found in the Ringelblum Archive.
We thank the Jewish Historical Institute for organizing this moving event, and all those who join us in preserving the memory of the victims.
