Free Walking Tour of Jewish Warsaw

Before 1939, Warsaw was home to Europe's largest Jewish community outside New York — some 350,000 people, nearly a third of the city. This walk traces what the Nazi occupation did to that world: the walls that sealed off the Warsaw Ghetto, the Umschlagplatz where hundreds of thousands were deported to Treblinka, and the 1943 Ghetto Uprising that briefly held off the German army with almost no weapons at all.

Your guide balances devastation with what remains and what's been rebuilt to remember it: the Ghetto Heroes Monument, fragments of the ghetto wall hidden between apartment blocks, and the collections of the POLIN Museum, which tell a thousand years of Polish Jewish life, not only its final chapter.