When in Poland, I use to lay a bunch of yellow daffodils flowers under the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and at the Umschlagsplatz*.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.The events that took place in the spring of 1943 has left a significant stamp on the city of Warsaw.
The Uprising - the first from among a few other uprisings in the ghettos scattered on the territory of Poland - was also the first event of that kind in occupied Europe. After its suppression the Germans razed the ghetto to the ground.
* Umschlagsplatz, Warszawa. First deportations started from Umschlag to Treblinka 1942, 70 years ago. When I was there, I felt how my vision in colour, changed to black and white and suddenly the year was 1942....
