This tour is also available as
a Private Tour.
Before the Second World War, Warsaw was the second-largest Jewish city in the world. The only place with a larger Jewish community was… New York!
For centuries, Jews played an active role in the city’s life during good times and bad. In the 19th century, Jews joined other Varsovians in their struggles against occupying powers and participated in Polish uprisings. During the Interwar Period, Jewish Warsaw flourished. Hundreds of artists, actors, writers, and journalists called the city home. Its cultural life was incomparable to any other time and place in history.
Learning about the pre-war diversity and richness of Jewish Warsaw helps us understand the scale of the destruction that took place during the Holocaust. But, alongside stories of persecution and death, there are stories of the resilience and unimaginable bravery of those who fought without hope.
The wounds and scars of the Second World War and Holocaust will never heal. But the story of Jewish Warsaw is not only the story of the past, but also the story of today: the young, diverse and energetic Jewish community that optimistically looks to the future.
To discover all of this, just come and join us and be ready for an emotional journey through history!
During this 2,5 hour tour you will see:
The last stop is near the POLIN Museum.
Very interesting and engaging about the treatment of the jews in the Masovian region in WW2. Though there is practically nothing left of the former ghetto our guide Luke was able to paint the picture due to his great story telling. A walk-and-talk history lesson. Don’t miss.
Insightful, informative and very human tour of what remains of the Ghetto and of the Jewish community heritage in Warsaw. Anna was very engaging, well prepared to answer to aok questions and with a delicate sense of humour that helped to go through such a painful topic. Grazie!
Our guide was Anna, and she had a very easy to follow way of explaining the history around the Jewish Warsow!
I’d highly recommend this tour!
Although he can seem a cold and distant man, he is funny and full of knowledge. He walked us around the Jewish quarter while explaining Warsaw history from a Jewish point of view, dropping jokes and questions in between that kept me paying attention the full tour and taking away my habit of writing notes, I almost even forgot to take pictures that was the level of his explanations.
He told us about true stories of Warsovians who put themselves in danger during the WW2 to help Jewish people; also, the singular way the ghetto wall was build and why was that way, way there’s a part of Warsaw that is built on a higher level that the rest of the city…
A recommendation, you will miss too many spots, history and stories if you don’t book it
The tour by Marek (I hope I have his name right) really gave an insight into Jewish life and culture in Warsaw before the Second World War and the horrors that were inflicted by the Nazis with the Warsaw Ghetto and the concentration camps.
It was one of the most moving and revealing tours I have ever been on.
This tour is also available as
a Private Tour.
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