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This edition of the March will be truly special, as this year, 22 July – the day when the Grossaktion was launched in 1942 – falls on the eve of Tisha B’Av, a day which in Jewish tradition symbolises great tragedies and mourning. The dates coincided the same way in 1942.

The fifteenth edition of the March of Remembrance pays tribute to women in the Warsaw ghetto. Mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, friends, and caretakers – every day, they all made immense efforts to keep alive domestic and social life in the ghetto in spite of hunger, violence, displacement, and the advancing Holocaust. Their daily care of their close ones, labour, courage, resourcefulness, and willingness to help others were some of the pillars of survival inside the ghetto walls.

The event will come to a close with a stage reading directed by Karolina Kirsz and starring actors from the Jewish Theatre. The script is based, among others, on excerpts from Cecylia Słapakowa’s study preserved in the Ringelblum Archive. Ania Karpowicz will provide musical accompaniment to the performance.

The March of Remembrance starts on Wednesday, 22 July 2026, at 6 p.m. by the Umschlagplatz Monument (10 Stawki Street, corner of Dzika Street). Route: Umschlagplatz – Stawki Street – Smocza Street – Dzielna Street – Racheli Auerbach Square. At the beginning of the event, volunteers will distribute ribbons with names to the participants. At the end of the March, we will tie the ribbons to the art installation.

Our participation in the March of Remembrance shows that the attempts to erase the crime of the Holocaust and the memory of its victims have failed.

Let us march together!

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The March of Remembrance starts on Wednesday, 22 July 2026, at 6 p.m. by the Umschlagplatz Monument (10 Stawki Street, corner of Dzika Street).

Route: Umschlagplatz – Stawki Street – Smocza Street – Dzielna Street – Racheli Auerbach Square

At the beginning of the event, volunteers will distribute ribbons with names to the participants. At the end of the March, we will tie the ribbons to the art installation.