I hope someone knows the answer to this. Was there a building shared between the Warsaw ghetto and the non-ghetto side? I researched this and one source said there was 1 building. Anyone know which one it is? And have a picture of it?
In the film The courageous heart of Irena Sendler. They show children being walked through what seems to be a german police station / justice court. This would make sense that it had an entrance on both sides of the wall. The only place I could think it could have been is Pawiak, but to my knowledge this place was in the heart of the ghetto.
Here is a extract from the account of Irene Sendler
There was a church next to the ghetto. Naturally, its entrance leading to the ghetto was "sealed", but if a child could speak perfect Polish and rattle off Christian prayers it could be smuggled in through the "sealed" entrance and later be taken out through the Christian entrance on the Aryan side. In that way children came in as Jewish and out as Christians. It was this "conversion" that Jolanta/Irena documented on the strips of paper she had buried, as well as where the child was taken in the first phase of its escape.
The Law Courts building had an entrance from the Aryan side on Ogrodowa Street, and for the Jewish side on Leszno Street. I've never seen a picture of it.
Go four accross and four down and click in the center of that quadrant. You will be on ul.Ogrodowa. The street above is Leszno and 53/55 - the courts building. Today, it's Al.Solidarnosci 127.
This route is mentioned often in memoirs. Few photos though.
Today's and during the war photos can be seen here: zdzislawsztorm.salon24.pl/160193,niezwykla-historia-sadow-na-lesznie
The view from Ogrodowa is on the lower photo here and the front on Leszno: warszawa.wikia.com/wiki/S%C4%85dy_na_Lesznie
Go to the theatre Piwnica at old Leszno 13. Here is a funny blog, Harry. A guy from Brooklyn searches his roots:
"13 Lesnow Street, Warszawa" was the address my ancestors gave to the authorities at Ellis Island when they arrived. I decifered the address to be Leszno Street 13.
So he goes there.
I learned a few days later while on the internet in a hotel in Wroclaw that 13 Leszno is a famous address, which explains while it was totally desimated and no longer exists
Merged: Ghetto monument sparks controversy in Warsaw
Personally, I think the monument is very touching and a good idea. `it's certainly sparked off a debate though.
While the project has the blessing of Poland's chief rabbi, it has also sparked strong opposition. Many scholars and some Jews fear that a monument to Polish rescuers at Warsaw's key site of Jewish tragedy will bolster a false historical narrative that Poles largely acted as rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. In reality, many Poles were indifferent to the plight of Jews during the war and significant numbers participated in their persecution.
Full article here`: news.yahoo/polands-mixed-feelings-over-memorial-rescuers-jews-111217283.html
You're not going to please everyone! I'm Jewish and I still feel that embattled Poland nonetheless deserves credit for stepping up to the plate and even constructing such a monument in the first place! Somebody's bound to feel slighted; the gentiles aren't honored sufficiently, they are offended, the Jews aren't given their due, then they feel put out:-)
Merged: Polish monument to Roma Holocaust victims destroyed
This really sickens me. The really sad thing is that given the atmosphere the 18% regime are encouraging, this kind of disgrace is going to become far far more commonplace.
Police are investigating the vandalism of a monument to Roma victims of the Holocaust, after the devastated memorial was found in Borzęcin Dolny, southern Poland.
The wooden monument had been knocked from its concrete base and then set upon with what appears to have been an axe.
Full article: thenews/1/9/Artykul/249912,Polish-monument-to-Roma-Holocaust-victims-hacked-up
This really sickens me. The really sad thing is that given the atmosphere the 18% regime are encouraging, this kind of disgrace is going to become far far more commonplace.
That's absolutely disgusting. PiS are embracing the nationalists, and I suppose we can now expect weekend warriors to patrol Poland, destroying anything that doesn't conform with their view of what Poland is.
Tweedy, Poland is following Europe's example after all. Moment - don't make me laugh in Germany alone 290 people were killed due to real racism in years 1990- 2014. Trump that kmiocie.
Slandering a political party for that is just something that can be expected, not that here is any basis for it.
in Germany alone 290 people were killed due to real racism in years 1990- 2014.
Incorrect. Between 75 and 178, depending on whom you ask. That's a tiny fraction of the total number of homicides in Germany since 1990. I'd bet the same is true for Poland.
This really sickens me. The really sad thing is that given the atmosphere the 18% regime are encouraging, this kind of disgrace is going to become far far more commonplace.
That nearly breaks my heart. Nearly, because there had been dozens of similar incidents in Poland (and thousands across EU) when your beloved 18.1% previous regime was in charge and somehow it didn't make you post these things at PF.
I have been researching the Holocaust in Poland for the last seven years and some things become obvious. One is that about 70% of Jews in Poland could not speak Polish, even after living there for a thousand years. They had a different dream from Poles; that of a Holy Land. Therefore they were not nationalistic about Poland. Many of the Jews were Socialists at a time when Poland was regaining its identity as a nation. Jews were particularly hard to rescue. Those Gentile Poles who did what they could - and remember - rescue only really started in 1942 when it became obvious to the Jews that elimination was in progress. Being divided by the ghetto walls made it hard for the ordinary Pole to see what was going on. And, remember, that Hitler had plans to exterminate the Polish people as well by mass shooting, mass starvation and other horrific ways.Many Poles thought the Jews were better off in the ghetto as they weren't being subjected to the same horrors the Gentiles were.
I dont know about 70% but some surely didnt,my Hasidic realtor and his current wife were in teens when they escaped from Poland and cant even say a simple Polish word.They admit that they never learnt Polish.
Yes I lived in Bensonhurst and Williamsburg decades back. Plenty of them in my next town called Lakewood,you can hear Hebrew all day long and Friday evening to Sunday morning the town looks like a ghost town and suddenly on sunday those hats and black suits all over the town,I am lucky I got out of business from that town 16 years back.That town has the highest Virus and death rates in my county also.Maybe because they usually have over 10 members in a family or more.
@mafketis That wasn't a real question. Your comment made me laugh. The fact is that Jews lived among Poles so very few didn't speak Polish if any.
Think of diaries from ghettos and how many of them were actually in Polish. Just like Roma people, just because they speak their language at home, it doesnt mean they're not fluent in Polish.
