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Question about Warsaw Ghetto (shared building?)



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Joined: Jan 26, 10 ♂ 		 May 23, 10, 12:02    #1
From another forum, can anyone help?

I hope someone knows the answer to this. Was there a building shared between the Warsaw ghetto and the non-ghetto side? I researched this and one source said there was 1 building. Anyone know which one it is? And have a picture of it?
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skibum:
From another forum, can anyone help?


In the film The courageous heart of Irena Sendler. They show children being walked through what seems to be a german police station / justice court. This would make sense that it had an entrance on both sides of the wall. The only place I could think it could have been is Pawiak, but to my knowledge this place was in the heart of the ghetto.
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Joined: May 21, 10 ♂ 		Edited by: warszawski  May 23, 10, 12:31    #3
Here is a extract from the account of Irene Sendler


There was a church next to the ghetto. Naturally, its entrance leading to the ghetto was ”sealed”, but if a child could speak perfect Polish and rattle off Christian prayers it could be smuggled in through the ”sealed” entrance and later be taken out through the Christian entrance on the Aryan side. In that way children came in as Jewish and out as Christians. It was this ”conversion” that Jolanta/Irena documented on the strips of paper she had buried, as well as where the child was taken in the first phase of its escape.
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The Law Courts building had an entrance from the Aryan side on Ogrodowa Street, and for the Jewish side on Leszno Street. I've never seen a picture of it.
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warszawski:
They show children being walked through what seems to be a german police station / justice court.

The main court building on what is now Solidarnosci (was then Leszno) was surrounded by the ghetto but was not technically in the ghetto.
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Joined: Sep 23, 08 ♂ 		Edited by: 1jola  May 23, 10, 21:30    #6
Go here: http://getto.pl/index.php?mod=plan

Go four accross and four down and click in the center of that quadrant. You will be on ul.Ogrodowa. The street above is Leszno and 53/55 - the courts building. Today, it's Al.Solidarnosci 127.

This route is mentioned often in memoirs. Few photos though.

Today's and during the war photos can be seen here:
http://zdzislawsztorm.salon24.pl/160193,niezwykla-historia-sadow-na-le sznie

The view from Ogrodowa is on the lower photo here and the front on Leszno:
http://warszawa.wikia.com/wiki/S%C4%85dy_na_Lesznie
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There is some great information here, thanks.
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Ghetto photos by streets:
http://kolejkamarecka.pun.pl/viewtopic.php?id=701
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skibum:
There is some great information here, thanks.

If you do go there, remember that Warsaw's best pizza place is directly across the street from it now.
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Harry:
If you do go there

Go to the theatre Piwnica at old Leszno 13. Here is a funny blog, Harry. A guy from Brooklyn searches his roots:

"13 Lesnow Street, Warszawa" was the address my ancestors gave to the authorities at Ellis Island when they arrived. I decifered the address to be Leszno Street 13.

So he goes there.
I learned a few days later while on the internet in a hotel in Wroclaw that 13 Leszno is a famous address, which explains while it was totally desimated and no longer exists

http://canttakebrooklynout.blogspot.com/2010/05/13-leszno-street-warsa w.html

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