On July 22, 1942, the Germans began deporting Jews from the ghetto to the Treblinka death camp. For more than two months, from 5,000 to 7,000 Jews were transported every day by train from Warsaw’s Umschlagplatz to Treblinka, where they were exterminated.
Almost 300,000 Jews perished at the time.
This year’s March of Remembrance, the 10th event of its kind, was dedicated to wartime teachers who accompanied their students until the last moments before the deportations.
'From death to life'
Marchers walked along a symbolic route called "From Death to Life," starting at the Umschlagplatz Memorial and finishing on Warsaw's Stare Nalewki Street.
Meanwhile, the nearby Krasiński Garden was the venue of an art installation called The Benches and a concert featuring an electro-acoustic piece entitled "Nothing New Has Happened To Us," based on A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto by Abraham Lewin, a teacher of Hebrew and Jewish history in a Warsaw girls’ school.
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