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State Medal - 20th Anniversary of the Ghetto Uprising
| Location | Israel |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Period | State of Israel (1948-date) |
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| Obverse description | The full-length figure of Mordechai Anielewicz, Commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, stands in heroic relief at left, holding a grenade, based on Nathan Rapoport's statue at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai. To the right, the crumbling ruins of a brick building fill the field. A bilingual legend in Hebrew and English curves around the rim, with the commemorative dates 1943–1963. |
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| Reverse description | At centre, a large stylised eternal flame in high relief dominates the field, based on Kosso Elul's Eternal Light at the Yad Vashem Memorial Shrine in Jerusalem. To the left, three jagged rocky spires rise from the lower field. A bilingual legend in Hebrew and English curves around the rim, quoting Isaiah 56:5, with a Hebrew caption at the base identifying the eternal light at the Memorial Mount. |
| Reverse script | Hebrew/Latin |
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