Grave to the Fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Built from the Rubble of Mila Street, one of the liveliest streets of pre-War Jewish Warsaw. These ruins of the bunker at 18 Mila Street are the place of rest of the commanders and fighters of the Jewish combat organization, as well as some civilians. Among them lies Mordechaj Anielewicz, the commander in chief. On May 8, 1943, surrounded by the Nazis, after three weeks of struggle many perished or took their own lives refusing to perish at the hands of their enemies.

There were several hundred bunkers built in the ghetto. Found and destroyed by the Nazis, they became graves. They could not save those who sought refuge in them, yet they remain everlasting symbols of the Warsaw Jews' will to live. The bunker at Mila Street was the largest in the ghetto. It is a place of rest of over one hundred fighters, only some of whom are known by name.

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"Grave of the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising built from the rubble of Mila street, one of the livelist streets of pre-war Jewish Warsaw. These ruins of the bunker at 18 Mila Street are the place of rest of the commanders and fighters of the Jewish combat organization, as well as some civilians. Among them lies Mordechaj Anielewicz, the Commander in Chief."

Photo 153, May 2007

Grave to the Fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Photo 149, May 2007