Warsaw unveils shrine to daring ghetto escape

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A color guard stood at attention and a military band played Hatikva yesterday as the Polish capital unveiled a memorial to mark the spot where a few dozen underground fighters fled the Warsaw Ghetto shortly before its liquidation in spring 1943. The memorial is at the exact location where 40 men and one woman were spared certain death at the hands of the Nazis by escaping from the sewage canals beneath the ghetto.

The keynote address was delivered by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who came to the ceremony accompanied by his wife, the American journalist Anne Applebaum.

Israel was represented by Foreign Ministry deputy director-general Pinhas Avivi and Ambassador Zvi Rav-Ner. The most moving Israeli presence, however, was that of Simcha Rotem, a Jerusalemite and former underground fighter, who told the audience his tale of fleeing the ghetto 10 days before its liquidation and making contact with municipal sewage workers to arrange the evacuation.


The monument is the brainchild of Maciej Kozlowski, a former ambassador to Israel. The monument is shaped like a sewage pipe with a ladder at its end, from which people are seen clinging desperately. Next to it is a sculpture shaped as a Star of David, and the names of all of those involved in the escape operation, both rescuers and survivors.

Source: Haaretz.com

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