Jewish Heritage

Itinerary

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  Pick up from your hotel/hostel in Warsaw by our tour guide and coach. Transfer to POLIN Museum and sightseeing. Walk around former ghetto area, viewing Monument of Gheto' Heroes and Umschlagplatz. Possible lunch break. Visit in Nożyków Synagogue and sightseeing. Transfer to Treblinka Nazi German Concentration Camp Museum and sightseeing. Return to your hotel/hostel in Warsaw. 

  

  POLIN Museum

  Museum of the History of Polish Jews – it is a new, ultramodern cultural museum on the map of Warsaw. It is situated at 6 Mordechaja Danielewicza Street in the place which was former Jewish district and also later on Warsaw Ghetto. The museum is a place dedicated to all those who are interested in heritage of Polish Jews and it is a symbol of breakthrough in Polish-Jewish relations during 1000 years history from Medieval times up till now. It is a place of meetings of people who want to know the past and current Jewi...

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  Monument to the Ghetto Heroes

  The Ghetto Heroes Monument is a monumnt at Zamenhofa Street in Muranów, commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 during the Second World War. The monument is the work of Natan Rapaport, designed by Marek Suzin. It was unveiled next to an earlier monument on April 19, 1948, on the fifth anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The monument stands 11 meters tall. At the bottom of the monument there is a sign in three languages: Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew - "Jewish nation to its fighters and ma...

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  Umschlagplatz Monument

  The monument is located in Warsaw at the intersection of Stawki and Karmelicka Streets. The monument was designed by architect Hanna Szmalenberg and sculptor Władysław Klamerus. Its official unveiling was made on April 18, 1988, on the eve of the 45th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as the most important element of the Memorial Route of the Martyrdom and Struggle of the Jews, unveiled on the same day. The monument consisted of a small square surrounded by over three-meter white walls, referring to the heig...

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  Nożyk Synagogue

  The Nożyk Synagogue is located at 6 Twarda Street in Warsaw. It is the only surviving prewar Jewish house of prayer in Warsaw. The synagogue was built in the Romanesque Revival style, and incorporated the Byzantine and Moorish style ornamentation. The seating capacity of the men’s section on the ground floor and the women’s section on the balcony stands at 350. Currently, the synagogue is the most important meeting point for the Jewish community. The Synagogue can be visited Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm and Su...

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  Treblinka Nazi-German Extermination Camp

  For the overwhelming majority of Warsaw’s wartime Jews their journey was destined to end in one place, a hitherto unknown village called Treblinka. Set 100 kilometres north east of Warsaw this small rural community found itself unwittingly thrust into the eye of the Holocaust. Split into two separate sections, Treblinka I and Treblinka II, Treblinka I was originally established in the summer of 1941 and functioned as a slave labour camp interning Polish prisoners. Treblinka II, the death camp, opened the following ye...

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