Jewish Warsaw guided tour

Jewish Warsaw mixed tour

Time: 4-6 hours including driving time

Participants: 1-4 persons

For larger groups extra transportation (mini-van, bus) cost will be added - please contact for details

Type: walking and car tour

Price includes: guiding service, tax, parking fees

Additional costs: Entrance fees: Jewish Historical Institute (3 € per person), synagogue (1.5 € per person), Jewish cemetery (2 € per person)

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In Warsaw ghetto, divided into 2 sections (the Small Ghetto at the southern end and the Large Ghetto on the north) 450,000 Jews were forced to live in very crowded conditions. By the time deportations to the extermination camps began, about 100,000 residents of the Ghetto had died of starvation or disease. After the 1943 Uprising the ruins of the Ghetto were levelled, and a new residential district was built right on top of them, making the new buildings one level higher than the pre-war buildings had been.

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ROUTE: ghetto area (remains of ghetto walls, synagogue, monuments and historical sites), Jewish cemetery, Jewish Historical Institute (exhibition and film)

The Warsaw Jews have disappeared irretrievably, their Warsaw was destroyed irrevocably. Singer still had the images of people and places from before the Holocaust before his eyes. All that is left for us are a few fragile material traces, inscriptions, documents and testimonies - the legacy of surviving memory.

On Nov. 16, 1940 the ghetto was enclosed by 3-meter-high walls. The wall often ran between properties and made use of the already existing internal walls there dividing the houses and courtyards. Some 500,000 Jews were imprisoned on 307 hectares (758 acres). Transports of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp began on July 22, 1942. A monument by Hanna Szmalenberg and Władysław Klamerus was built here in 1988. Everyday 5,000 to 6,000 people were sent to their death. As the inscription on the monument informs us: ' Over 300,000 Jews followed this path of suffering and death in 1940-1943 from the ghetto created in Warsaw to the Nazi death camps.' Four hundred forty-eight first names, from Abel to Żanna, were engraved in the wall as a symbol of the approx. 450,000 Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto. On the fifth anniversary of the outbreak of the Ghetto Uprising, April 19, 1948, a monument by Natan Rapaport was unveiled.