Poland · Walking Tours

4-Hour Warsaw Jewish Heritage Walking Tour with POLIN option

4 Hours Round trip from Twarda 6 Easy pace

Monument to the Heroes of the Uprising in the Jewish Ghetto

POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews

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The journey

Trip highlights

01 Visit Nożyk Synagogue, the only synagogue in Warsaw to survive World War II
02 See the wall that separated the Jewish ghetto from the rest of the city during the war
03 Trace the history of the Warsaw Ghetto at Chłodna Street and Umschlagplatz
04 Walk the Remembrance Path to the Monument of the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto
05 Option to extend the tour with a visit to the award-winning POLIN Museum

Explore Warsaw on a guided tour focused on the history of the city's Jewish community before and during World War II. Visit key sites including the Nożyk Synagogue, the ghetto wall, Chłodna Street, Doctor Korczak's orphanage, the Jewish cemetery, and Umschlagplatz. Follow this turbulent history through places that reflect both everyday life and wartime suffering, ending at the Monument of the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto. If you wish, you can extend the experience with a visit to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

Continue to Umschlagplatz, the starting point for thousands of Polish Jews taken from Warsaw to the death camp in Treblinka.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 4 Hours

Tour type Shared

Activity level Easy

Accommodation Not included

Transport Included

Wheelchair access Not applicable

City Warsaw

Languages English

Day by day

The itinerary

Day 01

Warsaw Jewish Heritage and Ghetto History Tour

Start your tour with a visit to Nożyk Synagogue, the only synagogue in Warsaw that survived World War II.
See the wall that separated the Jewish ghetto from the rest of the city during the war.
Continue to Chłodna Street, where the bridge between the small and the big ghetto once stood.
Travel to the orphanage run by Doctor Korczak before World War II with your Warsaw city tour guide.
Understand why the tour would not be complete without a visit to the Jewish cemetery, where thousands of Polish Jews were buried.
Continue to Umschlagplatz, the starting point for thousands of Polish Jews taken from Warsaw to the death camp in Treblinka.
Finish your tour with a walk along the Remembrance Path to the Monument of the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto. If you wish, you can extend the tour with a visit to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The POLIN Museum won the title of European Museum of the Year in 2016.