Page 29 - Centrum Dialogu im. Marka Edelmana. Edelman. The Man

The Warsaw ghetto, 1940-1943

1. Welwl Rozowski’s parents’ apartment, where Marek Edelman moved in
together with Stasia Rozensztajn, as his foster parents had left soon
after the beginning of the war.
2. The first location of the Judenrat – Jewish Council of Elders, 26/28,
Grzybowska Street.
3. The Berson and Bauman Children’s Hospital, 6/8, Stawki Street.

4. The apartment where Marek Edelman and his friends printed
underground leaflets in the ghetto.
5. Umschlagplatz (German: cargo handling square), a square at
4/6 Stawki Street next to a railway platform; in 1942-1943 used as
a place where the ghetto inmates were gathered, selected and shipped
off to the death camp in Treblinka and other camps in Majdanek,
Poniatowa and Trawniki.
6. Entrance to the ghetto mined by the insurgents, Franciszkańska Street.
7. Corner of Miła and Zamenhofa Streets – the place where the uprising
broke out.
8. Intersection of Bonifraterska and Sapieżyńska Streets, where one of the
Armia Krajowa’s [Home Army’s] solidarity actions was conducted, but
failed.
9. Bunker of the Jewish Combat Organization’s headquarters, 1, Miła
Street.
10. The bunker at 18, Miła Street, where Mordechaj Anielewicz, the leader
of the uprising, died together with most of JCO’s members and some
civilians.
11. Exit of the sewer at Prosta Street.
12. Apartment at 18, Leszno Street, kept undercover by Marysia Sawicka,
where the surviving leaders of the uprising hid after leaving the ghetto
up until the Warsaw uprising.