Siedlce, Poland (Pages 354-356)

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136. Commemorative plaque at the cemetery on Szkolna Street
(photograph from the album Siedlce before and after the Holocaust)

137. After the creation of the state of Israel, a social campaign was organized to plant forests. In the forest next to Jerusalem is a commemoration with the inscription:
“Forest in memory of the martyrs of the Siedlce community”

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138. In Jerusalem on Mount Zion there is a symbolic gravestone, a matzevah, with the inscription: “For eternal remembrance on Mount Zion, in memory of the Martyrs of Siedlce, a city in Poland, who were murdered, burned, and buried alive during the years of the Holocaust 1939–1945 by the cursed Nazis. May their name be obliterated. God will avenge the blood [of the Martyrs]. 1948. Union of Jews Who Originated from Siedlce in Israel, America, Argentina, and France”
(photograph from Book of Remembrance of the Siedlce Community)

139. The inscription “Siedlce” in Polish and Hebrew (in the lower left corner) engraved in a block of bedrock on the territory of the Valley of Destroyed Communities in Yad Vashem in Jerusalem
(photograph by the author)

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140. Rock with the inscription “Siedlce” on the territory of the former extermination camp in Treblinka
(photograph by the author)

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