Detail of the Warsaw ghetto wall with commemorative plaques and votive candles
Shot
2013
04/21
Publication
2019
01/24
NIKON D800, 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @
f/8.0 1/100,
ISO 100
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A close-up detail of the Warsaw ghetto wall shows commemorative plaques installed on the brick surface. A dark plaque at the top right bears a Polish inscription recalling how this wall marked the ghetto boundary. A yellow hexagonal plaque provides historical information about the site. Votive candles have been placed in the gap between the bricks, testimony to the respect and remembrance that visitors still bring to this place today. The wall, built in November 1940, became a symbol of the isolation and persecution of Warsaw's Jewish community.