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To: wideawake
Actually, look at number 8 on the map - it is two blocks from Saski Park and it was an engagement where the Jewish freedom fighters attempted to punch a hole in the Nazi cordon of the Ghetto.

I can't link to the interactive map, I posted it for the location of the park(s), which weren't in the ghetto. You could find it with a search at http://www.ushmm.org for Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. They footnote 8 as the site of the Grand Synagogue, also outside the ghetto, which the Nazis subsequently destroyed. Someone with more knowledge of the actions will have to fill you in on what might or might not have happened in Saski Park during the Ghetto (1943) uprising. It was the site of a major engagement in the August, 1944 Warsaw Uprising fought by the Polish underground. The two are frequently confused. And many of the positions of the Polish in 44 lay in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto from the year before.

46 posted on 12/09/2005 1:04:49 PM PST by SJackson (There's no such thing as too late, that's why they invented death. Walter Matthau)
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To: SJackson
Interesting. Thanks for the info.

As I recall from some article or other, the Nazis made sure to keep the Grand Synagogue just outside the ghetto wall to taunt the Jews - it was very beautiful and I'm sure the pride and joy of the community.

I guess they used it for secular purposes and then destroyed it later in retaliation for the uprising.

52 posted on 12/09/2005 1:12:37 PM PST by wideawake
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