Poland
Empty Chair Monument
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The Empty Chair Monument has 68 chairs to represent the 68,000 Jews executed here when ghetto was liquidated.
There are two meanings they used chairs for the monument. The first is that since Jews were often moved, they were told to bring their belongings. Because of that, chairs, tables, and wardrobes littered the area. The second meaning is to symbolize waiting to be exterminated, an idea reinforced by the Nazi’s who apparently made the ghetto wall in the shape of Jewish tombstones.
