We unite in a community of memories and pay our respects to the thousands who were killed. Today we remember the tragedy of the Jewish and Polish peoples, wrote Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in a letter to participants in the ceremony held at the Monument to the Common Martyrdom of Jews and Poles in Warsaw, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Crusades. the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
On Tuesday, Polish and Jewish victims of World War II are commemorated. Celebrations took place at the Monument to the Joint Martyrdom of Jews and Poles on ul. Gibalski – after the prayers and Prayers of Memory, flowers are laid.
“We gathered on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the ghetto uprising to return all citizens of the Republic of Poland who took up arms and said a firm + no! + to Germany’s extermination policy. Today we pay tribute to those Poles who helped them then. We is at the monument on ul. Gibalskiego in Warsaw. For many years, on the eve of the anniversary of the outbreak of the ghetto uprising, we have paid tribute to Poles and Jews who fought for freedom and officers of the Polish Armed Forces,” said the head of the Office of War Veterans and Victims The persecution, Jan Józef Kasprzyk, of the PAP.
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“At the monument to the common martyrdom of Jews and Poles, erected on the site of mass graves of German executions from 1940-43, we unite in a community of memory and pay tribute to the thousands of people who were killed. Today we remember the drama of the Jewish and Polish peoples. We seek words that can express the pain of the tragedy of the Second World War “The tragic chapter of our heritage is our common destiny during the war, whose eloquent symbol is the Monument to the Joint Martyrdom of Jews and Poles in Warsaw and the mausoleum. Today’s celebration carries an important message. It is a moral imperative to preserve memory, but also to remember World War II sources. It is the world that must remember this evil war forever and draw conclusions from it. Together with you, I bow my head and pay my respects to the slain,” wrote Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in a letter to participants of the ceremony, which was read by Wojciech Łygaś of the Nissenbaum Family Foundation.
“We are in a place where not only Jews, but also Polish-Christians lie in one common grave. Under normal circumstances, we should learn from this history, but unfortunately history repeats itself. We cannot stop being vigilant” – said the president Nissenbaum Family Foundation, permanent residence in Germany, Gideon Nissenbaum. He thanked the authorities of the Ministry of National Defense for taking patronage over the ceremony and the military aid’s participation in the ceremony.
“We are in a place where not only Jews, but also Polish-Christians lie in one common grave. Under normal circumstances, we should learn from this history, but unfortunately history repeats itself. We cannot stop being vigilant” – said the president Nissenbaum Family Foundation, permanent residence in Germany, Gideon Nissenbaum. He thanked the authorities of the Ministry of National Defense for taking patronage over the ceremony and the military aid’s participation in the ceremony.
“There are military school students with us. This ceremony is a kind of learning for them. It is important for us to learn that we must defend our country” – he added.
During the ceremony, Catholic and Jewish priests pray that all those killed rest on Gibalskiego Street.
After the celebration at ul. Gibalski, head of UdSKiOR went to the Jewish Cemetery on ul. Okopowa, where at the grave of Stefan Władysław, the symbolic grave of Paweł Frenkel and other soldiers of the Jewish Military Union, he laid flowers in honor of the heroes of the uprising , who in April 1943 fought an unequal fight against the German occupiers.
The Monument to the Joint Martyrdom of Jews and Poles in Warsaw is located in an area managed by the Nissenbaum Family Foundation and is adjacent to the Jewish Cemetery at ul. Okopowa. In 1929-39, a sports ground belonging to the Skra Labor and Academic Sports Club was located on this site. After the occupation of Warsaw by the Germans, sport was banned. When the Germans created the ghetto, the stadium became the site of the mass extermination of Jews and Poles. In 1940-43, the Germans shot and buried over seven thousand people in the stadium. The bodies of victims of executions carried out elsewhere in the ghetto were also buried here, e.g. 140 Poles and Jews were shot on 27 March 1943 by the Germans at Pawiak in retaliation for the liberation of prisoners near the Arsenal. (PAP)
Author: Maciej Replewicz
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