On this day.... 65 years ago.

At 13:00 today, the Sirens wailed as I stood just inside the gate of my students block at Plac Wilsona.

They wailed as today marks the 65th Anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943

I went to the memorial near the Jewish Cemetary and left a candle.

Warsaw Ghetto Map

I actually live in what was part of the Ghetto... At the end of Dzielna, near Okopowa.

It's a strange feeling living here in the midst of all this death and destruction.

Warsaw Ghetto destroyed by German forces - Photo Taken 1945