Warsaw at War Free Tour

In August 1944, as the Red Army approached, Warsaw's Home Army rose up against German occupation expecting help that never fully arrived. This tour follows the story of the Warsaw Uprising and the wider war years through the streets where it happened, from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier — Warsaw's monument to all its fallen defenders — to the sites of barricades, secret couriers and makeshift field hospitals.

Your guide explains why Hitler ordered the city destroyed in reprisal once the sixty-three-day Uprising was crushed, and how that decision — not just the earlier siege of 1939 — is the real reason so much of what you see in Warsaw today had to be rebuilt from nothing.