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Warsaw, Ghetto Wall









"O earth, do not hide my blood so that my scream does not cease" – a quote from the Book of Job, placed on the Umshlagplatz monument.

A walk around the former Jewish district is a unique journey to the past. In 1939 in Warsaw lived the second largest population of Jews (after New York) in the world. This fascinating area inhabited by over 400 thousand people within a few years was swept from the earth's surface. However, despite their efforts, the Nazis did not obliterate all traces.


 

Warsaw Jewish Culture Festival 2009

Let’s go in search of them. During a four-hour tour we will tell you the story of Jewish Atlantis. Through photographs we will be able to compare what houses, streets and places of worship of the Jewish neighborhood used to look like and what those places look like now. We will find the remains of the Ghetto walls. You will follow the Trail of Martyrdom and Memory from the monument of the Ghetto Heroes to the former old railway station, from where 300 thousand Jews were sent to the extermination camp in Treblinka. We will learn about the everyday life in the ghetto, cooperation with the Poles, resistance against the Germans and eventually about the uprising - the first such an attempt in the occupied Europe. We will also walk around the Jewish cemetery - one of the largest existing cemeteries in this part of the world, where we will tell you about the lives of Warsaw merchants, doctors, writers, actors. We will visit among other things the resting place of the creator of Esperanto. Plenty of tombstones can be undoubtedly considered sculptural masterpieces and are also fascinating because of their rich symbolism. At the end we will visit the Nożyków synagogue – at present the only one in Warsaw.

• Learn the story about the life of Jews in Warsaw before the war,

• View photos of the Jewish community – in the past and today,

• Visit places commemorating the martyrdom and heroic struggle during the Second World War,

• See the relics of the ghetto,

• Walk around the cemetery – the resting place of many celebrities and learn the symbolism of matzevas (Jewish tombstones),

• Visit the Nożyków Synagogue.

PRICE for a group of 1 – 4 persons/ from 60 EUR (depends on the season and the availability)

In case of a bigger group contact us please

Price includes guide and transport

Price doesn’t include: entrance to the Jewish Cementery/ 1 EUR, entrance to the Nożyk Synagogue/ 1.5 EUR

Additional Options:

- Lunch at a Jewish cuisine restaurant.

- A performance at the Jewish theater (depending on the repertoire in the given period).

- A visit to the Jewish Historical Institute, where apart from the Jewish Art Gallery you can see an exhibition about the Warsaw ghetto’s life, struggle and death.

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0 #3 Alessandro 2010-07-15 15:06
If you know about the ghetto but you didn't see it yet it's like you don't know. Despite reading books and watching movies I needed to be there to have an idea of what the ghetto was. Especially during winter it gives a better idea. I advice this tour because, the guide explaines greatly, and gives all the emotions from a "polish point of view".
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+1 #2 Alessandro 2010-07-15 14:52
This is the most beautiful and educative tour. If you have no time I advice it especially. Guide explains with lot of care the most tragic period of poland. It is pretty strong, but it is something MUST be seen.
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+1 #1 Stefano 2010-06-30 13:24
This a very involving and poignant tour, I think everybody should have it once in a life.
Like other tours of this website, this would be a nice adventure and a journey through the 20th century both. Moreover I think they are very cheap, strongly recommended!
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