Monument to the Ghetto Heroes

The Warsaw Ghetto Memorial, officially Monument of the Ghetto Heroes, was built to commemorate the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto.

First Memorial

After the suppression of the revolt were only burnt ruins of the Warsaw ghetto, and they too were razed to the ground by the Germans. 1946, the first War Memorial was erected among the ruins - a round stone slab, embedded horizontally in the ground level, designed by the architect Leon Marek Suzin. It was unveiled on April 16, 1946.

Second Memorial

In 1947, the Jewish -born sculptor Nathan Rapaport in Warsaw in cooperation with Leon Marek Suzin a memorial from Swedish Labradoritblöcken, which were determined by Reich Minister Albert Speer to build a victory monument, designed in today's shape. The unveiling took place on 19 April 1948.

The memorial consists of an eleven-meter -high stone stele with a bronze sculpture group in the middle, flanked by two bronze menorahs. A copy of the sculpture group is located in the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem. On the back of the stele is a bas-relief with the representation of the train of Holocaust victims.

The memorial was published in December 1970 in the media throughout the world due to the knee fall of Warsaw.

Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Opposite the cenotaph, at Willy- Brandt-Platz, the construction of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews according to the design by the Finnish architect teams Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Oy, Helsinki began in June 2009.

The museum building was designed on the plan of a square. The glass exterior walls were torn by irregular column that correspond to the curved galleries with corrugated concrete walls inside the museum building. The outer and the inner world were thus seamlessly connected.

The museum building will be officially opened on April 19, 2013, the 70th anniversary of the Ghetto Uprising, still without exhibits.