The monument is an example of how the wheels of history turn in unpredictable ways , says Hanna Dzielińska (Hanka Warszawianka), journalist and tour guide. In the fourth episode of "Spacerzy Varsavianistyczne w szlakami ghetto" (Warsaw Ghetto Walks), she explains why Third Reich Minister Albert Speer brought granite blocks to Warsaw during the occupation and whose initiative led to their construction in the Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto , a project by sculptor Natan Rapaport and architect Marek Suzin, the architect of the Muranów housing estate built on the ruins of the ghetto.
Natan Rapaport was also the subject of the recent outdoor exhibition of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, "Straight, Unbowed... Natan Rapaport and the Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto": https://1943.pl/wystawy/wyprostowani-nieugieci-natan-rapoport-i-pomnik-bohaterow-getta-w-warszawie/
English version: https://1943.pl/en/wystawy/standing-up-straight-unbent-warsaw-ghetto-museums-exhibition/
"Varsavianist Walks in the Footsteps of the Ghetto" is a film series of 16 columns revealing the history of places and the people connected with them. The following sites will be presented: Umschlagplatz; Anielewicz Mound; Szmul Zygielbojm Monument; Ghetto Heroes Monument; Grzybowski Square; Mariańska Street and the Nursing School; the Nożyk Synagogue; the Great Synagogue on Tłomackie Street; Nalewki Street; the Femina Cinema and Theatre; the Courts on Leszno Street; Chłodna Street; Waliców Street; the Jewish Cemetery and the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital – the site of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum's permanent exhibition.
The series is presented as part of the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto borders, organized by the Warsaw Ghetto Museum in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland (TSKŻ). The main commemorations took place on November 16, 2020.
