Memorial to Warsaw Ghetto uprising is vandalized

Words ‘Jude Raus’ discovered Wednesday at the Anielewicz Mound

Simha Rotem, one of the last living Warsaw Ghetto fighters, speaks in front of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial, during a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday (photo credit: AP/Alik Keplicz)
Simha Rotem, one of the last living Warsaw Ghetto fighters, speaks in front of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial, during a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday (photo credit: AP/Alik Keplicz)

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The entrance to a memorial for the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising was vandalized.

The words “Jude Raus,” meaning “Jews Out,” were discovered Wednesday at the Anielewicz Mound in Warsaw, a monument to commander Mordechai Anielewicz and his fighters.

Police are investigating the vandalism to the monument on Mila Street, which was a busy thoroughfare in Jewish Warsaw before the Holocaust.

Anielewicz and the Jewish Combat Organization made their plans and directed operations from a bunker at 18 Mila St. The Germans surrounded the bunker on May 7, 1943. Most of the 100 resistance fighters and leaders inside the bunker committed suicide, though a few escaped.

A memorial stone atop the mound recounts the story of the resistance fighters led by Anielewicz.

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