Umschlag, Warszawa. First deportations started from Umschlag to Treblinka 1942, 69 years ago. When I was there last week, I felt how my vision in colour, changed to black and white and suddenly the year was 1942....
View of the Umschlagplatz area year 1945. Stawki school/hospital building (Stawki 4-6) on the right and another school building at Stawki 8 where the school year 1939 was supossed to be the first one.... On Stawki street one can see the remnents of the wall surounding the Umschlagplatz. The area with 3 trees, now Monument, was so called selection area (S). Visible on the picture it is the deportation area (D) with numerous railway tracks.
My grandparents Gabriel Rozental and Helena Rozental went here. Janusz Korczak, Stefa Wilczynska and hundreds of children went here. The list of our family that went this way is about 120 persons.
265.000 Warsaw Jews were taken through Umschlagplatz to cattle cars and transported to the Treblinka and murdered in gas chambers.
