Jewish Heritage

Jewish Warsaw Private Walking Tour

Before the Second World War Warsaw was a prominent hub of Jewish orthodoxy and the cultural capital of Judaism in Europe. The Jewish community of Warsaw was the largest in Europe and the second largest in the world after New Yourk.  A significant 30% of the city’s population was of Jewish origin, with Yiddish as their cherished mother tongue. The Jewish community of Warsaw gave the world many prominent historical figures of remarkable influence, including former Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prise winner, Menahem Begin,  creator of Esperanto language, Ludwik Zamenhof and  classical composer, Władysław Szpilman, renowned from Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist.” 

While traces of the Jewish ghetto are becoming scarce, indelible symbols of Jewish presence in Warsaw continue to resonate. Embark on our Jewish Warsaw Private Walking Tour , an illuminating exploration that unveils the lesser-known realm of this vibrant city.

Jewish Warsaw Tour Highlights

During the tour you will see:

• Steel plates marking the boundaries of the former Jewish ghetto 
• Remnants of the ghetto wall incorporated into a new building
• Monument to the wooden bridge that connected two ghettos 
• Monument to Irena Sendlerova who saved many ewish children  from Warsaw ghetto during WWII
• Prefabricated housing estate on the site of the Great Ghetto
• Monument to the Heroes of the 1943 Jewish Uprising, where Chancellor Willy Brandt knelt in 1970
• Umschlagplatz Monument at former loading yard where Jews from ghettos were assembled for deportation to Nazi death camps
• The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and Monument to the Ghetto Heroes

Meeting point

Address: Plac Defilad 1 GoogleMap
We meet in front of the main entrance to the Palace of Culture and Science. You can reach it from the Marszalkowska Street.

How to recognise the guide?

The guide will have a white umbrella.