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2010-08-06

Ambassador Feinstein Tours Warsaw Ghetto

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Ambassador Feinstein and Mrs. Monaghan Tour the Warsaw Ghetto   

Ambassador Lee A. Feinstein and Mrs. Monaghan recently toured the remains of the Warsaw Ghetto. Hosted by representatives of the Forum for Dialogue Among Nations, they saw the remnants of Jewish homes, businesses, and cultural centers, many of which significantly pre-date World War II. They saw markers signifying the walls erected during the Nazi occupation to seal the Ghetto off from the rest of the city. It is estimated that over 400,000 people lived in the Ghetto before the war, though very few original buildings remain today. 

They walked along the Path of Remembrance, which begins at Umschagplatz and is marked with granite stones commemorating key events of the Ghetto’s resistance to Nazi occupation. Umschlagplatz was the transport point for over 300,000 Jews from the Ghetto to the death camps from 1940-1943, and now has a monument showing 448 symbolic first names of the victims. The Ambassador and Mrs. Monaghan found especially moving the Bunker Monument to the Jewish Fighters Organization.

The Forum for Dialogue Among Nations is a non-profit Polish organization whose mission is to foster Polish-Jewish dialogue and combat anti-Semitism through education, exhibitions, and exchange programs targeted at Polish and Jewish youth and leaders.

 Source: Embassy of the United States

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