Are+there+any+memorials+or+monuments+to+honor+the+rebellion?


 * Monuments in Honor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising **

 A number of memorials and monuments can be found honoring the people who fought in the uprising and the people who helped them in doing so during the uprising. There is a large stone inscribed with the Hebrew names of leaders and fighters during the uprising at Mila 18, the last bunker standing in the ghetto, which was also the bunker Mordechai Anielewicz was hiding in. When the Nazis began to burn the ghetto block by block near the end of the uprising, they swiftly approached Anielewicz and all of the other resistance leaders in their bunker on a street called Mila 18. When defeat was certain, many people at the bunker decided to commit suicide rather than be killed mercilessly by the Nazis in a public execution of sorts. Anielewicz committed suicide, along with 120 comrades, leaving the remaining 80 civilians hiding in the Mila bunker to die from the gas or fire that the Nazis used to attack the bunker.



A magnificent monument was also made to remember the uprising, titled The Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, next to the crossing of Zamenhofa Street (the street where the uprising fighting first took place) and Anielewicz Street. It was erected in 1948 and made by Nathan Rappaport. The front side is of resistance fighters and Anielewicz frozen in a battle scene when he is about to throw a hand grenade. The back is a sculpture of a line of hunched over Jews walking in a line to be sent on the trains to the extermination camps.  Gravestones set aside in small parks in what was the ghetto can be found, marking places that unknown bodies were buried after the uprising was over. The Warsaw Ghetto wall is still standing in some places and where it has been taken down; the places the wall used to be are marked. The wall stands as a chilling reminder of what had happened so many years ago and how we can never forget what happened. All of these monuments and memorials can remind us of what happened and how the people of the ghetto fought back, despite their disadvantages and consequences.