This year's march leading from the Umschlagplatz to a children's hospital was dedicated to the ghetto's physicians and medical staff.
"We wanted to remind everybody that July 22, 1942, the day when the first transports of Jews were sent to Treblinka (concentration camp - ed.), is a day of one of the most tragic Jewish holidays connected with the destruction of Jerusalem," Pawel Spiewak, the director of the Jewish Historical Institute said.
The march organisers commemorated the ghetto's medical staff "who till the very end remained with their patients, and when there was not hope for them, offered them "a silent death."
"This was the day which meant the annihilation of Warsaw Jews. In two-and-a-half months the Germans sent 300,000 people to the gas chambers," Spiewak said. (PAP)
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