Warsaw Ghetto Memorial (Warsaw, Poland)

Nathan Rapoport

1948

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.
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