Fragment Of Ghetto Wall

This guide to the Fragment of Ghetto Wall in Warsaw starts with two missing bricks, pried out in 1989 and flown to Washington, D.C. for a museum exhibit, from a wall that once marked the actual edge of the Warsaw Ghetto sealed off by Nazi occupiers in the autumn of 1940. It follows how this ordinary courtyard wall survived the destruction that leveled almost everything around it, and how the city planned to tear it down anyway in the 1970s, until a local man named Mieczyslaw Jedruszczak refused to let that happen. Run your hand along the brick in front of you.