April 19th, the 65th anniversary of the uprising in Warsaw Ghetto. Many people came to the place where the ghetto was located during the WW II. They brought flowers, mainly yellow daffodils and tulips, symbol of the fight.
In April 1943 Nazi troops entered the ghetto on Heinrich Himmler's orders to liquidate the remaining population of the ghetto. They were attacked by hundreds of fighters for three weeks, the insurgents fought against 3,000 Nazi troops. Some seven thousand were killed or burnt alive during the fights and about 50 thousand were transported to the Treblinka concentration camp.
This is the Umschlagplatz Monument - memorial of the 300.000 Warsaw Jews, who were sent to the Nazi gas chambers in Treblinka. The deportations began on July 22, 1942 - ended on September 12, 1942. On this place, where the railroad station was, they were put into cattle trains for their last journey. This stone monument resembling an open freight car was built in 1988.
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