A unique Warsaw monument has been lost. “We have filed a complaint with law enforcement”
Decorative iron gates of the former Herman Jung brewery at ul. Waliców 11 are missing – said Varsavianist Jan Sujecki, representative of the association Defenders of Warsaw Monuments. The police already know about it.
The decorative gate shows the history of the ghetto and the martyrdom of the Warsaw Jewish community. The remains of the former brewery building, which benefit the ghetto wall, and the entrance gate have been listed as ordinary monuments.
The historic gate with the history of the ghetto has disappeared
The gate was protected 21 years ago in connection with the construction of the “Aurum” office building, in which a section of the wall with a gate and gate was integrated. After the office building was demolished and the current building erected in its place, concerned social custodians of monuments noticed that he wrote disappeared from the gate passage. The Association of the Defenders of Monuments of Warsaw (OZW) reported to MWKZ prof. Jakub Lewicki about the control and exact actions that happened to the monuments.
– The mentioned gate entered for sightseeing belongs to a private owner. The owner moved it to another place, without consulting MWKZ – confirmation of MWKZ spokesman Andrzej Mizera. also that in the case of the loss of a monument, Make inspection and efficiency to improve the state of preservation of the masonry. – We also filed request to law enforcement and I am currently providing information regarding their addition,” he added.
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Established in 1854, Herman Jung’s brewery, dedicated to the low area crossing Waliców and Ceglana Streets (now – Pereca Street). the creation of a long factory wall with a gate and red brick buildings are the result – origin in the 1890s. since 1897, the company A. Domański i S-ka has become the dawn of the former brewery, issued sparkling water and permanently stored beer and lemonade warehouses.
In the fall of 1940, ul. Waliców draws the attention of the ghetto. Crossing it, ul. Ceglana, surrounded with wooden fences on both sides, was briefly separated from the closed district. The Germans also separated a fragment of the Waliców pavement, at the entrance to the effect during the occupation of Domański’s company. The wall of the ghetto ran through the curb of the even side of ul. Waliców, right under the windows of tenement house No. 10. Behind the gate leading to the courtyard of Domański’s company, it curved, crossed the road and pavement, and then came perpendicularly to the factory wall, which served as the ghetto border. The gate’s gate, made of wrought iron, was adjacent to the ghetto wall in 1940-1942. Place one of the food transfer points to the ghetto right next to them. Smugglers, mostly children and women, were hunted down by the Germans with particular ferocity.
– From the diary of Abraham Lewin, handed over in Oxford in 1988, we feed that On June 9, 1942, the criminals shot five Jews at the gate. The next two were murdered on the corner of Waliców and Ceglana, said the Varsavianist, adding that the gate’s gate survived the walk of the Warsaw Uprising. – Remained separately listed in the decision of the provincial conservator of monuments, which in 1994, he entered the buildings of the former brewery into ordinary monuments. This was decided by the historical value of the relic – exactly.
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