Sewer manhole cover from Warsaw.

Photograph | Photograph Number: N00307

Date: 1900 - 1945
Locale: Warsaw, Poland
Variant Locale: Warszawa
Varshava
Warschau
Photo Designation: ARTIFACTS -- Objects -- Manhole Covers
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Warsaw City Authority

Event History: This type of sewer manhole cover is typical for the center of Warsaw, former location of the ghetto. The sewers were used as both a means of escape for members of the resistance and a way to smuggle material in and out of the ghetto. During the Warsaw uprising of August 1944, Jewish survivors of the Warsaw ghetto who were living in hiding on the "Aryan side" served as guides through the sewers for Polish underground fighters.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005188.
Keyword: ARTIFACTS
GHETTOS (ARTIFACTS)
MANHOLE COVERS
WARSAW
Artifact Geography: Washington, DC United States
Artifact Photographer: Arnold Kramer
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Warsaw City Authority

Source Record ID: Collections: 1990.293.1b
: Record last modified: 2005-04-14 00:00:00
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