Warsaw Sights

Umschlagplatz Monument

#23 of 206 things to do in Warsaw

#23 of 206 things to do in Warsaw

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The Umschlagplatz Monument marks the site of the umschlagplatz (literally, 'taking-away place'), the railway terminus from which Warsaw's Jews were transported to Treblinka. The rectangle monument's marble walls are carved with more than 3000 Jewish forenames, from Aba to Zygmunt, and the stark message: 'Along this path of suffering and death over 300,000 Jews were driven in 1942-43 from the Warsaw Ghetto to the gas chambers of the Nazi extermination camps'.

Its shape is symbolic of the cattle trucks into which the prisoners were herded.

 

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