POLAND'S WARSAW GHETTO MEMORIAL
A tourist trail tracing the boundary of the former Warsaw ghetto was inaugurated in the Polish capital Nov. 2008.
Twenty-one commemorative plaques with photographs from the period have been installed at key points along the trail, although few vestiges of the ghetto remain today.
"The Warsaw ghetto was the largest to be set up in Poland during the Nazi occupation. It was a horrific place of isolation and death for a third of the city's population," Warsaw mayor, Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, said during the inauguration ceremony.
The plaques, and an accompanying tourist map, were developed by Warsaw city hall, Poland's culture ministry and the city's Jewish Historical Institute. The inauguration date was chosen to be as close as possible to the November 16 anniversary of the walling-off of the ghetto by the Nazis in 1940.