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Medal Issued to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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The reverse has a picture of the destroyed ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in the background.  The ruins are covered by barbed wire, with a single living branch intertwined with the wire.  Embedded in the wire are the words, “40 ROCZNICA POWSTANIA W GETCIE WARSZAWSKIM” (40th Anniversary of Uprising in Warsaw Ghetto).  Curved around the lower right rim is “PTAIN - WARSZAWA - 1983”.
 

  • Medal Issued to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
  • Medal Issued to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Identifer: CJF-RFC2015065

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This medal was issued in Poland in 1983 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.  It was issued in bronze and silvered bronze and is 69 mm in diameter.  It was designed by Adam Wlodardzyk and was minted by the Ptain Mint in Poland.   
 

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