A Monument to Tragedy and Heroism: In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, a museum honors and celebrates the culture and long history of Polish Jews, which stretches far back beyond the tragic events of World War II.
For 70 years, a square in the northern quarter of Warsaw has been a site of strife and conflict, memory and mourning. In 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising emerged from the streets around it, as Polish Jewish partisans fought the Nazi occupiers bent on their extermination. Following the liberation of Poland, and the more complete comprehension of the Holocaust, a monument to that heroic resistance effort was built in the square in 1948, from stones the Nazi architect Albert Speer had sent to Warsaw.
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