TOUR OF THE THE WARSAW GHETTO 5 HRS
TOURS OF WARSAW IN ENGLISH
You can book a private tour or we can assemble a small group to share the price.
Pawel Szczerkowski
mobile: +48501393130
email: [email protected]
THE WARSAW GHETTO
Duration: ca. 5 hrs
Price: 550 zloty
Walking + public transport
The tour explores pre-war Jewish life in Warsaw, story of the Warsaw ghetto, memorial sites and a fascinating revival of the Warsaw Jewish community today.
We`ll start at Grzybowski square - the place of Jewish life. First to bring alive the atmosphere of the time when Warsaw was home for the largest Jewish community in the world after New York and a world center of yiddish culture. When chassids lived together with socialists, Esperanto was created and Isaac Bashevis Singer, future Nobel Prize winner, wrote his first novels.
But Grzybowski square is a place of Jewish life also today - the only pre-war synagogue and the commune house. You will learn a fascinating story of the revival of Jewish life in Poland.
Next, you will learn the story of the Warsaw ghetto, where half a milion Jews were imprisoned. It`s a powerful story of starvation and death, but also of a thriving culture, fashion and love. You will be walking through the fighting area of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 - the very first act of armed resistance against the Nazis in occupied Europe - to the former deportation point, where railcars went off to death camps.
Itinerary:
Prozna - the only surviving Jewish street
The Nozyk synagogue
Jewish commune house
Remnants of the ghetto wall
Former Jewish children`s hospital
Chlodna footbridge installation (it`s one of ghetto`s memorials) - ghetto story 1940-1942
Area of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fights - ghetto story 1942-1943 and after
Muranow, a housing project built on the rubble of the ghetto
Monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes
Miła 18 - memorial of the bunker which served as the headquarters of the Ghetto Uprising commandership
Jewish Memory Lane which leads to deportation point called Umschlagplatz