| Description : The uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto of captured Jews against
their deportation to extermination camps began on the 19th of April 1943. The insurgents, who were completely
inadequately armed, fought bitter battles for four weeks in the ghetto with the German occupying forces, which claimed a
total of 12,000 victims. A further 30,000 people were shot after the fighting had finished and 7,000 were transported to death camps.
Chancellor Willy Brandt laid a wreath at the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial on the 7th of December 1970, immediately
before the signing of the Warsaw Treaty. He then sank to his knees. This gesture of humility, the plea for forgiveness for
the German crimes committed in the Second World War, made history as Warsaw's kneeling. Bodo Broschat depicts this scene on
the coin. On the left is a seven‐armed candlestick flanked by two lions, a symbol of Judaism. In a circle in
two segments are the words "50 JAHRE KNIEFALL" / "VON WARSCHAU" (50th anniversary of the Warsaw kneeling). The year of
issue "2020" is centre left, below it the German mint mark (A = Staatliche Münze Berlin in
Berlin, D = Bayerisches Hauptmünzamt in Munich, F = Staatliche Münzen
Baden‐Württemberg in Stuttgart, G = Staatliche Münzen Baden‐Württemberg
in Karlsruhe or J = Landesbetrieb Hamburgische Münze in Hamburg), on the right the country
abbreviation "D" (for Deutschland / Germany) and above it the designer's logo. |
