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Rendering of Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland
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Hecker’s design for the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews (Polin) proposed a complex of two buildings: one a rectangular concrete block and the other a lighter metal and glass structure. The…

Contributor:

Zvi Hecker

Places:

Warsaw, Poland

Date:

2005

Subjects:

Cities, Memorial, Jewish quarters, Ecology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
3-D rendering of lit-up buildings.
Warsaw Ghetto Memorial (Warsaw, Poland)
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When the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial was erected in 1948, it stood amid the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. One of the key intentions was to convey the message that Jews had not gone to their deaths in the…

Contributor:

Nathan Rapoport

Places:

Warsaw, Republic of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1948

Subjects:

Memorial, Jewish quarters, Activism, Holocaust, Cities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Sculpture
Photograph of tall, rectangular monument in front of apartment buildings, depicting seven figures gathered around central figure and smaller sculpture of a seven-branched menorah flanked by lions in front of monument in left foreground.