A memorial march in Warsaw

, 16 November 2016
On Sunday, 21 July 2013, the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw has organised the second edition of the Memorial March in Warsaw. The 22nd of July marks the 71 anniversary of the commencement of the liquidation of the largest ghetto in all of Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto. As a result, over three hundred Jewish Warsaw citizens perished at the Treblinka concentration camp.

On the eve of the anniversary, a tribute to all Holocaust victims who were killed during WWII will be paid. The central theme of this year’s edition of the march will revolve around the life story of Marysia Ajzensztadt, who voluntarily joined his father who was herded to Umschlagplatz. This Sunday, we will walk the symbolic way back home to their former house. It is adjacent to the Great Synagogue on Tlomackie Street, where their music used to resound.

The route of the March will go through Stawki (Umschlagplatz monument); Stanisława Dubois, Ludwika Zamenhofa, Mordechaja Anielewicza, Świętojerska, Ogród Krasińskich, Bohaterów Getta, Długa, Bielańska, Antoniego Corazziego and Tłomackie Streets. At the end of the march each participant will be given sheets of paper with ten stories relating to the tragic fate of Polish Jews during the Holocaust. The participants will decide for themselves which and how many stories will be bound in a golden ribbon.

The programme of the March:

17:00

the official commencement of the March at the Umschlagplatz monument (the intersection of Stawki and Dzika Streets)

a welcome speech by Pawel Spiewak, Director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw

an address by the President of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland, Piotr Kadlčik

- a concert of songs of Eila Lama Azawtani by Maniucha Bikont, accompanied by Raphael Rogiński

18:30

- the end of the March on Tłomackie St, in front of the Jewish Historical Institute, the former location of the Great Synagogue on Tlomackie St.

- a speech by Pawel Śpiewak

- a fragment of the one-man show ‘Josel Rakower mówi do Boga’ by Sławomir Holland

The March has been partnered by the Jewish Religious Community, the Polish Research Centre for the Holocaust of the Academy of Sciences, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Drugie Pokolenie Association, Polish Jewish Youth Organisation (ZOOM) and  Śródmieście i Wola Warsaw Districts.

The honorary patronage has been granted by the Mayor of Warsaw.