Umschlagplatz

The hub in Warsaw was the site of the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews were mostly gathered and herded for deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Holocaust. He was the freight depot of the Gdansk train station, consisting of tracks with freight shed, storage areas and various loading tracks. The freight station is no longer in operation today.

The western area of the station, which connects directly to the ghetto, was separated by a wooden fence and later by a wall from the rest of the station. Different platforms, railway building, the former homeless shelter, a hospital and other buildings were converted into a passage area for the prisoners. Here also selections took place among the prisoners of the ghetto.

On 22 July 1942, the Nazis, the Jews of Warsaw in freight cars began crowded carry away. On some days, 7,000 Jews were deported and a total of around 265,000 taken to the gas chambers. Some sources describe it as the greatest mass murder of a single municipality in World War II. The first transports ended 12 September 1942. Followed individual shipments. Another move was to begin on January 18, 1943, to which it initially but did not come through the actions of resistance to three days in advance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

During the deportations, the rest of the train station area continued to serve as a trade and supply center for large parts of the rest of the city.

Memorial

In 1988 a stone monument that looks like a gondola, built on the terminals to the Stawki road. It was designed by architect Hanna Szmalenberg and the sculptor Władysław Klamerus.

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