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Memorial Stone of the Council for Helping Jews

Memorial Stone of the Council for Helping Jews

[pl] Aleja Niepodległości 208
Aleje Jerozolimskie 37
Aleje Ujazdowskie
Stone of Operation Arsenal (Akcja pod Arsenałem)
Memorial Stone of the Battalion “Czata”
Memorial Stone of the Battalion “Gozdawa”
Memorial Stone of the Battalion “Gozdawa”
Memorial Stone of the Battalion “Miłosz”
Memorial Stone of the Battalion “Miotła” (Broom)
Memorial Stone of General Anders’s Battalion “Wigry”
Memorial Stone of the Battalion “Zaremba-Piorun”
Memorial Stone of the Battalion “Zośka”
Memorial Stone of the Brotherhood of the Arms
Memorial Stone of General Maczek
Combat group ‘Krybar’ Memorial Stone
Jerzy Gawin’s memorial stone
Memorial Stone of Katyń
Memorial Stone of the 3rd May Constitution
[pl] Kamień Pamięci Monte Cassino
Memorial Stone of the Defenders of the Power Station
Memorial Stone of Victims of Stalinism
Memorial Stone of the November Uprising
Memorial Stone of the Council for Helping Jews
 Memorial Stone of Fights for the Vistula River and its Abutments
Memorial Stone of the ‘’Ruczaj” Group
Memorial Stone and tribute to Slovaks
Stone of the Group “Bartkiewicz”
Old-Town fortifications
Memorial Place of the Fallen Soldiers of the General Jozef Bem Suligowski’s troops
Place of the Polish fight for the freedom of their homeland
Ogród Saski
Park Agrykola
Commemorative tablet to the Poles and the Warsaw inhabitants killed in the Second World War
Mordechaj Anielewicz Monument- Mound
Monument to the Battle of Monte Cassino
Monument to the Ghetto Heroes
Monument to the Heroes of Warsaw “Nike”
Monument to the Polish Underground Weapon
Jan Kiliński’s Monument
Józef Piłsudski’s Monument
Priest Józef Stanek’s Statue
Monument in Memory of the Fallen Polish Pilots in the Second World War
The Little Insurrectionist’s Monument
Monument to the Teachers of Secret Teaching
Statue of the Victims of The Tank Trap
Monument to the Victims of Simons’ Passage
Partisan’s Monument
Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East
Statue of the Czerniaków Rebelians and Soldiers of the First Polish Army
Monument of Warsaw Insurgents
Roman Dmowski’s Monument
Stefan Rowecki’s “GROT” Monument
Tadeusz Kościuszko’s Monument
Monument of the Soldier of the First Army of the Polish Army
Rynek Solecki
Commemorative tablet of the victorious return of troops from the war of 1920
Factory of the Explosives ‘Kinga’ Memory Board
Commemorative board to the action at Wende’s Pharmacy
Andersa Street
ul. Dobra 96
ul. Emilii Plater 15
ul. Kościelna
[pl] ul. Marszałkowska 136
ul. Nowy Zjazd 1
ul. Piękna 17
ul. Przechodnia
ul. Solec 41
ul. Solidarności 83
ul. Solidarności 85

Memorial Stone of the Council for Helping Jews (Bohaterów Getta Square, from Anielewicz’s Street side)

On August 11th 1942, just after the beginning of the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto, a writer Zofia Kossak-Szczucka published a proclamation entitled “Protest !”. In a leaflet sold-out in conspiratorial conditions, she wrote: “In the Warsaw ghetto, behind a wall cut off from the world, several hundred thousand convicts are waiting to die.(…) Who is silent in the face of murder – becomes partner of the murderer. Who does not condemn – this allows. So we take our voice, Catholics-Poles.” On September 27th 1942, from the initiative of Zofia Kossak and Wanda Krahelska – Filipowicz, the Delegation of the Government of the Republic of Poland to the Country set up a Temporary Committee for Helping Jews. It became the beginning of the “Żegota”. It was established on December 4th 1942, and operated until 1945 as an organ of the government of the Republic of Poland in exile. It was the only one state-run institution to save Jews from extinction in German-occupied Europe. Its members were people of different social and political views. Irena Sendler was a member of the Council.  Thanks to her efforts, 2,500 Jewish children secretly escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and found care, despite of the ban of help hiding Jews under threat of the death penalty, introduced by the Nazis in the fall of 1941. Nearly 4,000 people have received material support, and about 50,000 people false documents. The Council searched for flats and shelters for refugees from the ghettos. “Żegota” was honoured with the Righteous Among the Nations medal awarded by the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute in Jerusalem.

The monument was unveiled on September 27th 1995 by the last surviving member of the Jewish Aid Council – Władysław Bartoszewski for the anniversary of the origin of “Żegota” and at the same time the feast of the Polish Underground State. The obelisk is designed by  Hanna Szmalenberg and Mark Moderau and there is an inscription on it in three languages: Polish, Hebrew and English, which reminds the history of the organization.