Marchers to commemorate Jews deported from Warsaw ghetto in 1942

A March of Remembrance will be held in the Polish capital on Wednesday to mark 84 years since the Germans began deporting Jews from the World War II-era Warsaw Ghetto.

A section of the historic wall of the Warsaw Ghetto at 62 Złota Street.

Photo: Adrian Grycuk [CC BY-SA 3.0 pl (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en)]via Wikimedia Commons

Wednesday, July 22, marks the 84th anniversary of the start of the mass deportation of Jews from the ghetto to the Nazi German Treblinka extermination camp.

An estimated 300,000 Jews were taken to the camp's gas chambers within the course of two months.

The deportation operation ended on September 21, 1942, although trains also departed for Treblinka during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which took place from April 19 to May 16, 1943.

This year's March of Remembrance will start at 6 p.m. at the Umschlagplatz, a collection point where Jews were assembled for deportation, and proceed along the streets of Warsaw's prewar Jewish district.

The Jewish Historical Institute, which has organized the march since 2012, describes its route as a symbolic "from death to life" experience, with the participants carrying Ribbons of Memory with the names of murdered Jews.

The event will include a tribute to women fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto, Polish state news agency PAP reported.

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Source: IAR/PAP, dzieje.pl