Warsaw City Authority collection

Identifier: irn82473
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn82473

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the Warsaw City Authority.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a manhole cover and housing from the center of Warsaw, Poland, in the area that served as a ghetto from October 1940 to May 1943.

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Manhole housing from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3511
- English
- overall: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 24.125 inches (61.278 cm) | Depth: 24.125 inches (61.278 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago
Metal sewer manhole cover housing from the Miła Street neighborhood of the Warsaw ghetto in Poland. Before World War II, Warsaw was home to the second largest Jewish community in the world and a major center of Jewish life and culture, as well as the capital and largest city in Poland. Following the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the city was occupied by German soldiers and a ghetto was quickly established on October 12, 1940. The population of the 1.3 square mile ghetto swelled to 400,000 as Jews from surrounding areas were forced to move in. The food allotments issued in ...
Manhole cover from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3512
- English
- overall: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Diameter: 21.500 inches (54.61 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago
Metal sewer manhole cover from the Miła Street neighborhood of the Warsaw ghetto in Poland. Before World War II, Warsaw was home to the second largest Jewish community in the world and a major center of Jewish life and culture, as well as the capital and largest city in Poland. Following the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the city was occupied by German soldiers and a ghetto was quickly established on October 12, 1940. The population of the 1.3 square mile ghetto swelled to 400,000 as Jews from surrounding areas were forced to move in. The food allotments issued in the ghet...

Warsaw City Authority collection

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Manhole housing from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto

Manhole cover from the Miła Street neighborhood in the former Warsaw ghetto