Medal Issued to Commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, located in Warsaw in the Heroes of the Ghetto Square on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Identifer: CJF-RFC2015066

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Description
This medal was issued in bronze and is 70 mm in diameter.

The obverse of the medal is modeled after the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, Poland. The sculptor of the Monument was Natan Rappaport and the architect Marek Suzin. The bronze sculpture was cast in Paris.  In great irony, the large memorial surrounding the sculpture is made of blocks of labradorite, a stone the Nazis ordered from Sweden in 1942 to construct a victory monument.  The Monument was unveiled on April 19, 1948, the 5th anniversary of the Ghetto Uprising.  A copy of this monument was erected at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem in 1975-6.

 

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