Warsaw Ghetto
Warsaw Ghetto
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Established in October-November 1940, this small district, comprising only 2.4 percent of Warsaw's land area, is where more than 450,000 Jews were forced by the Germans to live in crowded conditions.
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Traveler O
Washington DC, DC1,216 contributions
Jul 2019
There are few remaining portions of the Warsaw Ghetto, there a few here, and then you have the markers seen on the sidewalk/road in Warsaw. The absence of placards is disconcerting, but it would seem the country wants to move on. There are indications a Warsaw Ghetto museum is under construction, so that maybe that will help fill in the blanks for those who don't know. Not too far from here are some remaining buildings/apartments from the Ghetto era. Highly recommend seeking those out as well. It's a tragic piece of history that should be taught and remembered. Reading ahead about the Warsaw Ghetto is necessary to truly understand what you're seeing here. The remaining brick walls were part of the grand scheme controlling the lives of too many innocents to count, all because of what they believed.
Written February 24, 2020
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stevebA5552CZ
15 contributions
Jun 2019
Only a few remnants of the wall exist. My hotel was a block away from one. Close to the center of the city and a few blocks from to the bus/train station. Check out a city map for the location. The wall was inside a courtyard of a hotel and apartment buildings. But it was accessible through a gateway. Small stones and flowers were placed next to the wall. You can also view it through a chain link fence from the street. About 30 meters away from the wall. Also next to the wall is a map showing where this portion was in relation to the entire walled ghetto.
Written April 14, 2020
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retireeVancouver
Vancouver, Canada1,827 contributions
Jun 2018 • Couples
The Warsaw Ghetto is too large an area to walk from the southern to the northern boundary without the use of public transportation. Google maps helped me locate and plan a route to the attractions in the Ghetto that I had identified from guidebooks. Tourists who don't plan what they want to see in the Ghetto will be disappointed if they expect to come across these sights serendipitously as the Ghetto is a large area and the attractions are not closely grouped.
We started our visit to the Ghetto at its southern boundary. After visiting the Uprising Museum, we walked along Grzybowska to Zelasna - once the entry point to the Ghetto - to see a Ghetto wall fragment. Then we walked along Zelasna to Chlodna to see the Footbridge Marker - another entry point to the Ghetto. Then we walked to al Jana Pawla II, and, at Dzielna, we visited the Pawiak Prison, once run by the Gestapo. Next, we took a bus to get to the Museum of Polish Jews and its Monument to the 1943 Ghetto Uprising. We didn't get to the Umschlagplatz.
It was a good thing that at each of these sights, there were special tile markers in the sidewalk which marked the Ghetto boundary. They had the same inscriptions in dual languages - "Ghetto Wall 1940-1943". The street names were also helpful in identifying the Ghetto area as they have not changed. I would not have considered the re-developed areas where we walked as a section of a past Ghetto. In fact, it was hard to visualize what the Ghetto had looked like from the present day streets and scenes. I was not disappointed to see that the area had been redeveloped with office buildings, multistoried apartment buildings with ground floor shops, the occasional hotel, and, of course, new through streets like the al Jana Pawla II. However, we did experience what the size of the Ghetto was like by walking just 2 km of it and not even reaching its northern boundary.
The Ghetto Wall Fragment and the Footbridge Marker were photostops with not much to look at. The wall fragment was still in excellent condtion displaying its 9 panels, each 10 feet long and about 12 feet high. It was easily spotted on Grzybowska as it was not surrounded or hidden by encroaching buildings. The bas-relief attached to the wall fragment showed passerbys the extent of the Ghetto while a 1940s photo showed what the entrance gate had looked like. A plaque provided information and facts about the extent of the Ghetto Wall and the fate of Ghetto inhabitants.
The Footbridge Marker was on Chlodna street and could easily be missed if one didn't know what to look for as the 4 vertical markers blended in with the tall street lights and traffic signals.
Pawiak Prison needed at least an hour's time to view the exhibits which provided information about the political prisoners, life in the Ghetto such as food rations, and a visit to the prison cells. There was just the ground floor to visit.
The Monument to the 1943 Uprising was a photostop while the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews behind it took at least 2 hours. We were thankful for its late closing time. This award winning museum, housed in a huge modern glass building, provided excellent displays from the immigration of Jews to a city tolerant of religious practices in the medieval ages up to the Holocaust.There were many rooms, each devoted to a particular time or theme. I enjoyed the displays showing Jewish customs and how schisms developed between those who wanted to follow a traditional life style and those who wanted changes. The interior was unexpectedly pleasant with wall murals, many photos, artifacts, interactive displays. This attraction should not be missed.
We planned to spend at least 1 day visiting the various attractions in the Warsaw Ghetto. These attractions were memorable and it was satisfying to walk on the pleasant streets where a terrible history once happened. Street names have not changed so they help to identify the Ghetto boundary areas. However, redevelopment has modernized this part of Warsaw; one would not know it was once called a Ghetto.
We started our visit to the Ghetto at its southern boundary. After visiting the Uprising Museum, we walked along Grzybowska to Zelasna - once the entry point to the Ghetto - to see a Ghetto wall fragment. Then we walked along Zelasna to Chlodna to see the Footbridge Marker - another entry point to the Ghetto. Then we walked to al Jana Pawla II, and, at Dzielna, we visited the Pawiak Prison, once run by the Gestapo. Next, we took a bus to get to the Museum of Polish Jews and its Monument to the 1943 Ghetto Uprising. We didn't get to the Umschlagplatz.
It was a good thing that at each of these sights, there were special tile markers in the sidewalk which marked the Ghetto boundary. They had the same inscriptions in dual languages - "Ghetto Wall 1940-1943". The street names were also helpful in identifying the Ghetto area as they have not changed. I would not have considered the re-developed areas where we walked as a section of a past Ghetto. In fact, it was hard to visualize what the Ghetto had looked like from the present day streets and scenes. I was not disappointed to see that the area had been redeveloped with office buildings, multistoried apartment buildings with ground floor shops, the occasional hotel, and, of course, new through streets like the al Jana Pawla II. However, we did experience what the size of the Ghetto was like by walking just 2 km of it and not even reaching its northern boundary.
The Ghetto Wall Fragment and the Footbridge Marker were photostops with not much to look at. The wall fragment was still in excellent condtion displaying its 9 panels, each 10 feet long and about 12 feet high. It was easily spotted on Grzybowska as it was not surrounded or hidden by encroaching buildings. The bas-relief attached to the wall fragment showed passerbys the extent of the Ghetto while a 1940s photo showed what the entrance gate had looked like. A plaque provided information and facts about the extent of the Ghetto Wall and the fate of Ghetto inhabitants.
The Footbridge Marker was on Chlodna street and could easily be missed if one didn't know what to look for as the 4 vertical markers blended in with the tall street lights and traffic signals.
Pawiak Prison needed at least an hour's time to view the exhibits which provided information about the political prisoners, life in the Ghetto such as food rations, and a visit to the prison cells. There was just the ground floor to visit.
The Monument to the 1943 Uprising was a photostop while the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews behind it took at least 2 hours. We were thankful for its late closing time. This award winning museum, housed in a huge modern glass building, provided excellent displays from the immigration of Jews to a city tolerant of religious practices in the medieval ages up to the Holocaust.There were many rooms, each devoted to a particular time or theme. I enjoyed the displays showing Jewish customs and how schisms developed between those who wanted to follow a traditional life style and those who wanted changes. The interior was unexpectedly pleasant with wall murals, many photos, artifacts, interactive displays. This attraction should not be missed.
We planned to spend at least 1 day visiting the various attractions in the Warsaw Ghetto. These attractions were memorable and it was satisfying to walk on the pleasant streets where a terrible history once happened. Street names have not changed so they help to identify the Ghetto boundary areas. However, redevelopment has modernized this part of Warsaw; one would not know it was once called a Ghetto.
Written July 19, 2018
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JeffersLondon
London, UK66 contributions
Aug 2013 • Friends
We left Stansted early morning… Ryan Air, so I knew we were in for a rough trip… arrived in Warsaw mid-morning and got straight on a coach…
Warsaw’s big and has been home to Jews since the 1400s. By the start of the war more than 400,000 Jews lived in Warsaw, about 1/3rd of the total population. Jews were involved in every walk of life. Warsaw had the largest population of Jews of any city in the World apart from New York.
We visited the Okopowa Street Cemetery, with more than 250,000 individually marked gravestones (all pre Nazi) which was vast, beautiful, partly overgrown now and.… well, haunting. It felt like a larger Jewish version of Highgate cemetery.
On the way out we came across a sunken area, covered in grass and surrounded by low stones. This is an unmarked grave (the last photo but one in the "Warsaw 2012" album) where it is thought that more than 100,000 victims of the Warsaw ghetto are buried.
There were 400 synagogues in Warsaw before the war. We visited the one remaining one!
When Germany invaded Poland in September ’39, sanctions (wearing of yellow stars etc.) were immediately placed on Jews. Anti-Semitism was actively encouraged and the 400,000 Jews were placed in an area of just a few blocks. A third of Warsaw crammed into an area of 2.4% of the city!
Conditions were desperate. Perhaps 100,000 died of Typhus and starvation (that’s who ended up in the unmarked grave) and by May 1943, despite masses of resistance, not a single Jew remained, having all been killed or gone off to the death camps…
The final resistance was crushed by Jurgen Stroop and his internal SS daily report written 16th May 1943 stated:
“One hundred and eighty Jews, bandits and sub-humans, were destroyed. The former Jewish quarter of Warsaw is no longer in existence. The large scale action was terminated at 20:15 hours by blowing up the Warsaw Synagogue… Total number of Jews dealt with 56,056, including both Jews caught and Jews whose execution can be proved...”
I walked around the tiny bit of the ghetto that was not destroyed by the Nazis. Only a small section of the dividing walls remain.
Warsaw’s big and has been home to Jews since the 1400s. By the start of the war more than 400,000 Jews lived in Warsaw, about 1/3rd of the total population. Jews were involved in every walk of life. Warsaw had the largest population of Jews of any city in the World apart from New York.
We visited the Okopowa Street Cemetery, with more than 250,000 individually marked gravestones (all pre Nazi) which was vast, beautiful, partly overgrown now and.… well, haunting. It felt like a larger Jewish version of Highgate cemetery.
On the way out we came across a sunken area, covered in grass and surrounded by low stones. This is an unmarked grave (the last photo but one in the "Warsaw 2012" album) where it is thought that more than 100,000 victims of the Warsaw ghetto are buried.
There were 400 synagogues in Warsaw before the war. We visited the one remaining one!
When Germany invaded Poland in September ’39, sanctions (wearing of yellow stars etc.) were immediately placed on Jews. Anti-Semitism was actively encouraged and the 400,000 Jews were placed in an area of just a few blocks. A third of Warsaw crammed into an area of 2.4% of the city!
Conditions were desperate. Perhaps 100,000 died of Typhus and starvation (that’s who ended up in the unmarked grave) and by May 1943, despite masses of resistance, not a single Jew remained, having all been killed or gone off to the death camps…
The final resistance was crushed by Jurgen Stroop and his internal SS daily report written 16th May 1943 stated:
“One hundred and eighty Jews, bandits and sub-humans, were destroyed. The former Jewish quarter of Warsaw is no longer in existence. The large scale action was terminated at 20:15 hours by blowing up the Warsaw Synagogue… Total number of Jews dealt with 56,056, including both Jews caught and Jews whose execution can be proved...”
I walked around the tiny bit of the ghetto that was not destroyed by the Nazis. Only a small section of the dividing walls remain.
Written July 27, 2014
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Mariana Aguiar
Sao Paulo, SP1,078 contributions
Aug 2016 • Solo
An interesting detail about the remainings of the walls is that there are some marks on the ground of the city. They are everywhere, as you can see in my picture, and mark the place where the limits of the walls used to be.
Written November 22, 2016
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Norma F
Buenos Aires, Argentina483 contributions
May 2014 • Couples
It worth seeking the small parts not destroyed after the WWII. At the courtyard of number. 55 Sienna St., there is a fragment of a ghetto wall and a simple plaque at the front of the building.. But you can´t enter the place there. Go around the block to Zlota 62 and enter the building . You will find two places with a memorial of part of the Ghetto. It is a quiet place in the middle of a block of building remembering the sadness of what happened behind those walls
Written May 30, 2014
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chepaddy
Edinburgh, UK7,067 contributions
Nov 2012 • Couples
The ghetto area situated west of the Palace of Culture is interesting to walk around. Whilst most of the original buildings were demolished by the Nazis, there are quite a number of sites still to see in the area.
Fragments of the ghetto wall can be found in the courtyard at Sienna 55 (accessible via Zlota 62). The old ghetto bridge has been commemorated with a monument (& lights at night) at the intersection of Chlodna & Elektoralna. The Pawiak Gestapo prison (where 30,000 were murdered) is worth a visit and is a sad site.
The most visited site is probably the Ghetto Uprising monument where the West German Chancellor Willy Brandt spontaneously dropped to his knees in contrition in 1970.
The Umschlagplatz memorial marks the spot where hundreds of thousands went to their deaths on trains bound for Treblinka.
Also, a large Jewish cemetery can be found at Okopowa 49 / 51.
However for us one of the most powerful sites is located in the current heart of Jewish Warsaw at Grzybowski Place. Here some of the original red brick buildings ready for renovation have been covered with large pictures of some of the Jewish residents of Warsaw during the ghetto era. Sad to think that in all likelihood most died in Treblinka or Auschwitz.
Fragments of the ghetto wall can be found in the courtyard at Sienna 55 (accessible via Zlota 62). The old ghetto bridge has been commemorated with a monument (& lights at night) at the intersection of Chlodna & Elektoralna. The Pawiak Gestapo prison (where 30,000 were murdered) is worth a visit and is a sad site.
The most visited site is probably the Ghetto Uprising monument where the West German Chancellor Willy Brandt spontaneously dropped to his knees in contrition in 1970.
The Umschlagplatz memorial marks the spot where hundreds of thousands went to their deaths on trains bound for Treblinka.
Also, a large Jewish cemetery can be found at Okopowa 49 / 51.
However for us one of the most powerful sites is located in the current heart of Jewish Warsaw at Grzybowski Place. Here some of the original red brick buildings ready for renovation have been covered with large pictures of some of the Jewish residents of Warsaw during the ghetto era. Sad to think that in all likelihood most died in Treblinka or Auschwitz.
Written November 23, 2012
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travelSheffield
sheffield13 contributions
Dec 2014 • Business
Warsaw is a great stop over places or a weekend places to vist i travel into warsaw on the over night sleeper train from Austria Vienna because i had found a flight back to london for less than it would cost to flight direct \
The sleep train go s from central station every night and cost less than 44 Euros to central station in WARSAW a 6 berth IS the basice prices given but i advise you to book the 4 berth or private ist class part of the sleeper train I then took a flight out of warsaw for the cost of 67 pounds on ba the next day and paid 16 pounds for the taxies ride to the airport a big save to me as a direct fly to london would have cost 260 euros and 8 hour stop over in frankfurth
Warsaw has a good cheap city transport system and most bussines hotel are across from the tourrissm office plus in walk distances of central station and the jews geto across the street ! You can buy for 15 punt less than 11 pounds an all day city transport pass from most news / cigaret kioss next to tram stops and bus station but taxis are cheap enought Some taxis take cards but only the city green taxis do this ! Bus 180 is the only bus need with a little walking as it takes you up town into the old warsaw streets and also takes you down town to the park s and royal palces mussems
Warsaw has grown up in 3 diffrent peroids one straight after the second world war afteer the germans demoiltion the old city which was built from phots of the town by old gaurd after the war ! THEN there the new road syatem built during soviety era were striaght grid roads were built !
This has been followed by to day western sky scrapers built by big bussines
Warsaw by this action has in my eyes is one off city not to be missed ! WArsaw FELLS LIKE A WORK DISNEY LAND AND A MUST SEE !
Most people in warsaw speack english but i found some would rip you off but when i was there 50 note in polish money was less than 20 pounds so i did not matter Because of the exchange rate poland is cheap !
The sleep train go s from central station every night and cost less than 44 Euros to central station in WARSAW a 6 berth IS the basice prices given but i advise you to book the 4 berth or private ist class part of the sleeper train I then took a flight out of warsaw for the cost of 67 pounds on ba the next day and paid 16 pounds for the taxies ride to the airport a big save to me as a direct fly to london would have cost 260 euros and 8 hour stop over in frankfurth
Warsaw has a good cheap city transport system and most bussines hotel are across from the tourrissm office plus in walk distances of central station and the jews geto across the street ! You can buy for 15 punt less than 11 pounds an all day city transport pass from most news / cigaret kioss next to tram stops and bus station but taxis are cheap enought Some taxis take cards but only the city green taxis do this ! Bus 180 is the only bus need with a little walking as it takes you up town into the old warsaw streets and also takes you down town to the park s and royal palces mussems
Warsaw has grown up in 3 diffrent peroids one straight after the second world war afteer the germans demoiltion the old city which was built from phots of the town by old gaurd after the war ! THEN there the new road syatem built during soviety era were striaght grid roads were built !
This has been followed by to day western sky scrapers built by big bussines
Warsaw by this action has in my eyes is one off city not to be missed ! WArsaw FELLS LIKE A WORK DISNEY LAND AND A MUST SEE !
Most people in warsaw speack english but i found some would rip you off but when i was there 50 note in polish money was less than 20 pounds so i did not matter Because of the exchange rate poland is cheap !
Written December 20, 2014
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Hawk470
Baltimore, MD2,682 contributions
Jun 2019
Little remains of the physical Warsaw Ghetto, the site of one of the most horrific chapters of Nazi infamy and proudest moments of Jewish resistance in the Second World War. But what remains tells a story of evil and heroism standing athwart the tides of history in a fight to the death. Evil won the one-sided battle, but in so doing created a legend which lives on for the Jewish People and all who oppose oppression.
It takes some map reading skills and a willingness to stitch pieces into a whole picture to convey the Ghetto to us today as we visit in three dimensions. The fragment of the Ghetto Wall tucked into a courtyard between two nondescript apartment blocks on Zlota Street a couple of blocks from the Westin hotel, Ghetto buildings still in use today or under renovation on Walikow Street a few blocks away near the Ibis Styles, and, a few blocks further at Chlodna and Zelazna, the Footbridge of Memory – commemorative spires on each end of where a bridge connected the two parts of the Ghetto.
Each site creates its own impression. The fragment of the wall speaks sadly and eloquently because you can easily imagine the sounds of those not imprisoned passing by the other side of the wall, just as you can hear and see the residents of the apartment blocks framing the wall fragment going about their daily lives. The buildings on Walikow Street.convey that this massive prison was a city within a city and then you realize that all of the residents were doomed by unspeakable evil. The Footbridge spires and the Ghetto Wall outline in the sidewalk evoke the ghosts of those passing between the two portions of the Ghetto while the rest of the world carried on – people walking, street cars passing, cafés, and life outside – not as before because of the war, but a closer approximation than for those trudging over the bridge.
These three sites combine to give you a sense for the physical contours of the Ghetto. Other sites, somewhat further away – such as the Mila 18 memorial to the Ghetto Uprising and Umschlagplatz, where the Jews were assembled for deportation to the gas chambers of Treblinka – should also be visited to experience other aspects of this story of mankind’s inhumanity. Visiting the amazing Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, also not far from this area and near Mila 18 and Umschlagplatz, will put this chapter of the Polish Jewish experience in the context of the larger sweep of history. Experiencing the realism of the section on the Ghetto at the museum, whether before or after seeing these sites in person, enriches the experience immeasurably.
It takes some map reading skills and a willingness to stitch pieces into a whole picture to convey the Ghetto to us today as we visit in three dimensions. The fragment of the Ghetto Wall tucked into a courtyard between two nondescript apartment blocks on Zlota Street a couple of blocks from the Westin hotel, Ghetto buildings still in use today or under renovation on Walikow Street a few blocks away near the Ibis Styles, and, a few blocks further at Chlodna and Zelazna, the Footbridge of Memory – commemorative spires on each end of where a bridge connected the two parts of the Ghetto.
Each site creates its own impression. The fragment of the wall speaks sadly and eloquently because you can easily imagine the sounds of those not imprisoned passing by the other side of the wall, just as you can hear and see the residents of the apartment blocks framing the wall fragment going about their daily lives. The buildings on Walikow Street.convey that this massive prison was a city within a city and then you realize that all of the residents were doomed by unspeakable evil. The Footbridge spires and the Ghetto Wall outline in the sidewalk evoke the ghosts of those passing between the two portions of the Ghetto while the rest of the world carried on – people walking, street cars passing, cafés, and life outside – not as before because of the war, but a closer approximation than for those trudging over the bridge.
These three sites combine to give you a sense for the physical contours of the Ghetto. Other sites, somewhat further away – such as the Mila 18 memorial to the Ghetto Uprising and Umschlagplatz, where the Jews were assembled for deportation to the gas chambers of Treblinka – should also be visited to experience other aspects of this story of mankind’s inhumanity. Visiting the amazing Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, also not far from this area and near Mila 18 and Umschlagplatz, will put this chapter of the Polish Jewish experience in the context of the larger sweep of history. Experiencing the realism of the section on the Ghetto at the museum, whether before or after seeing these sites in person, enriches the experience immeasurably.
Written October 14, 2019
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permia
Ireland66,910 contributions
Apr 2017 • Couples
Numerous remembrances are present so that the atrocious events of the holocaust will never be forgotten.
We walked the Path of Remembrance, between the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and Umschlagplatz, which has sixteen granite blocks in memory of the hundreds of thousands of Jews that were sent to their death in the concentration camps.
One of the best museums we have visited is the incomparable POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The multitude of exhibits, utilising interactive maps, diagrams, sketches, paintings, photographs and re-creations of key aspects, brilliantly convey the history of the Jews in Poland.
At the Bunker Monument a group of young people were lined up around the rectangular area, singing plaintive songs and praying. Inscriptions are to be seen on the boulders.
On the site of former railway siding where Jews were loaded onto cattle cars to concentration camps is the Umschlagplatz Monument. Four hundred Polish Jewish first names are inscribed, each name honouring 1000 victims.
We walked the Path of Remembrance, between the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and Umschlagplatz, which has sixteen granite blocks in memory of the hundreds of thousands of Jews that were sent to their death in the concentration camps.
One of the best museums we have visited is the incomparable POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The multitude of exhibits, utilising interactive maps, diagrams, sketches, paintings, photographs and re-creations of key aspects, brilliantly convey the history of the Jews in Poland.
At the Bunker Monument a group of young people were lined up around the rectangular area, singing plaintive songs and praying. Inscriptions are to be seen on the boulders.
On the site of former railway siding where Jews were loaded onto cattle cars to concentration camps is the Umschlagplatz Monument. Four hundred Polish Jewish first names are inscribed, each name honouring 1000 victims.
Written May 16, 2017
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