Siedlce, Poland (Pages 351-353)

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130. Siedlce Jews who survived the Holocaust bury the exhumed human remains of those murdered in Opole near Siedlce. The circumstances of this crime have to this day not been explained
(photograph from the collection of Jontel Goldman)

131. Design for a monument by Rappaport: “Rachel Crying over the Fate of Her Children.” The monument was to have stood in the cemetery on Szkolna Street, but unfortunately it was never executed
(photograph from the collection of Jontel Goldman)

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132. Monument honoring murdered Siedlce Jews on Berek Joselewicz Street.
It stands where the synagogue was located
(photography by the author)

[Place
sanctified
by the blood
of 17,000 Jews
victims of Nazi genocide]
[Yiddish script]
[22 – VIII – 1942–43]
[On banner at right: “We remember” in Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew]

133. Grave of the Polish soldier artilleryman Zygmunt Hersz, born 15 February 1901 in Siedlce, died 17 May 1944 at Monte Cassino
(photograph by the author)

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134. Commemoration of Siedlce Jews at the cemetery in Holon in Israel.
The gravestone's shape recalls that of the synagogue
(photograph from the album Siedlce before and after the Holocaust)

135. Commemoration of Jewish population
of Siedlce and Łosice at a cemetery in Paris
(photograph from the album Siedlce before and after the Holocaust published by the Association of Siedlce Jews in Israel, August 1992)

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