Themenführung zum Gedenktag des Warschauer Aufstands

Warsaw was particularly hard hit by the Germans' destruction and violence during the Second World War. The extensive destruction of the city, the deportations and murder campaigns as well as the brutal suppression of the ghetto uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 are harrowing examples of the suffering of those affected who, despite everything, resisted the occupying forces. The themed tour to commemorate the Warsaw Uprising links these different moments of resistance with the exhibition "Warsaw Accuses" in the National Museum in Warsaw (1945) and the people involved. It also refers to the exhibition "Martyrdom and Struggle" at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw (1948), in which Jewish historians addressed Jewish resistance in the ghetto. The objects on display invite visitors to reflect on the staging of national identity and heroic stories in post-war Poland on the one hand and on their after-effects on today's culture of remembrance on the other.