In 1987, to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the liquidation of the ghetto in Majdan Tatarski, the former site of the municipal market between Świętoduska and Lubartowska Streets in Lublin was officially named Ghetto Victims Square. As early as in 1963, a monument to the Mass Extermination of the Jewish Population was unveiled there, with the ashes of the murdered Jews from Lublin and the Lublin region placed in its foundations. In 2005, the owner of the area, the City of Lublin, leased the square to a private development company, which planned to build a shopping center and underground car park there. Despite protests from people all over the world (including Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986), the monument was dismantled and moved to Niecała Street, while the metal containers with the ashes of the Holocaust victims were removed and handed over to representatives of the Jewish community in Lublin (they were most probably buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in Lublin). Since 2005, Ofiar Getta Square has been a construction site (no investment has been built there yet), separated from the rest of the city by a corrugated steel fence. With the degradation of the area, the name of the square has also been obliterated – the plaques with its name have been removed and the name no longer appears on official maps. In 2020, as a result of the intervention of the "Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre" Centre, plaques with its name were placed again at the edges of the square. The future of this area and the return of the monument there are uncertain. For years, the city has been in a legal dispute with the lessee of the area, but both bringing back the monument and the restoration of the square as a memorial site seem to be of secondary importance to the relevant authorities.
