Kopiec Mordechaja Anielewicza, Warsaw

Kopiec Mordechaja Anielewicza is a memorial mound raised in nineteen forty-six from the debris of houses on Miła Street, above the destroyed bunker that became a grave. During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, this underground shelter served as the headquarters and hiding place of the Jewish Combat Organization, known as ŻOB. Its command had moved here after their earlier refuge on Miła Street was discovered.

On May eighth, nineteen forty-three, German forces and collaborating Ukrainian units surrounded the bunker, where about three hundred people had taken refuge. Civilians emerged and surrendered, while ŻOB fighters remaining inside tried to resist. The Germans forced gas into the shelter; many fighters took poison rather than be captured.

About one hundred and twenty insurgents died here, including ŻOB commander Mordechaj Anielewicz and Mira Fuchrer. Some people escaped through an undiscovered exit, though many survivors later died from wounds or gas poisoning. No exhumation took place after the war, so the buried bunker remained a collective grave.

The stone obelisk beside the mound was added in two thousand six, carrying the names of fifty-one identified Jewish fighters. The modern address Miła eighteen is elsewhere; this is the historic site at Miła and Dubois.