The monument was raised in the square bordered by Anielewicza Street, Karmelicka Street, Lewartowskiego Street and
Zamenhofa Street. From August 1942 until the end of the Warsaw ghetto this was the last location of the
Judenrat. The site also witnessed several clashes between the
Warsaw Ghetto Jewish partisans and the German and auxiliary troops. The
labradorite stone used in parts of the monument comes from German supplies, ordered by
Albert Speer in 1942 for planned Nazi German monuments. The western part of the monument shows a
bronze group sculpture of insurgents - men, women and children, armed with guns and
Molotov cocktails. The central standing figure of this frieze is that of
Mordechai Anielewicz (1919 – 8 May 1943), the leader of
Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB; ) during the uprising. {{#tag:ref| Anielewicz was instrumental in the first act of the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, preventing the majority of a second wave of Jews from being deported to
extermination camps. This initial incident of armed resistance was a prelude to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that commenced on 19 April 1943. Though there were no surviving eyewitnesses, it is assumed that he killed himself on 8 May 1943, along with many of his staff, in a
mass suicide at the surrounded ŻOB command post at
18 Miła Street. His body was never found; nevertheless, the inscription on the obelisk at the site of the Miła 18 bunker states that he is buried there. at the monument during his visit to Poland, May 27, 2011 The eastern part of the monument shows the persecution of Jews at the hands of the Nazi German oppressors. The monument has a three-language sign: "Jewish nation to its fighters and martyrs." ==Commemoration-related events==