Mila 18 Memorial
Number 18, Mila Street was the headquarters of the Jewish Fighting Organization. Most occupants died when it was destroyed by the Germans on May 8, 1943. In three languages, the inscription reads,"Here on the 8th day of May, 1943, Mordechai Anielwicz, the commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, together with the staff of the Jewish Fighting Organization and dozens of fighters fell in the campaign against the Nazi enemy."
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Jewish Cemetery Original Gate-sign
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The original gate of the Jewish Cemetery
notice the sign (from the previous photo) on the brick column
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Wall of tombstones
As you enter the cemetery, one of the first things you see is a low wall. During WWII many tombstones were uprooted and broken. The wall is made of pieces of tombstones.
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a small section of the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish Cemetery, established in 1806, contains the graves of more than 250,000 people. It is one of the few Jewish cemeteries still in use in Poland today. In many smaller towns the Nazis used stones from Jewish cemeteries for building new roads.
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Another section of the cemetery
The cemetery was neglected and became badly overgrown during the postwar peiod.
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