Private Tour: Jewish Warsaw Heritage Sightseeing by retro minibus

Tour the city of Warsaw inside retro minibus to get a good look at the artefacts, relics and remainings of the Jewish culture here. Warsaw was the biggest Jewish city in pre-war Europe and second on the planet, just after NYC. There is not much left of it but not everything is gone. From many places en route especially worth mentioning are Grzybowski Sq. with Prozna st., the last piece of the ghetto wall, Umschlagplatz, Mila 18, POLIN museum neighbourhood and Korczak monument. Visit in the Synagogue and Cemetery is optional. Many things on this private tour are up to you but when it comes to preparation, experience and historical knowledge you can rely on the guide.

Our tour covers all of the important sites from Jewish Ghetto, the story of Ghetto Uprising in 1943, main scenes like the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes memorial as well as the places which regular tours never visit.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Fragment of Ghetto Wall, ul. Zlota 60, Warsaw 00-821 Poland

Few fragments of the walls running between the properties have been preserved, as well as the walls of the pre-war buildings that marked the border of the ghetto. The three best-known parts of the Warsaw Ghetto wall are located in the former small ghetto, in the courtyards of the tenement houses.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Monument to Janusz Korczak, Świętokrzyska 32, 00-044 Warszawa, Poland

Janusz Korczak, was a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor"). After spending many years working as director of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused sanctuary repeatedly and stayed with his orphans when the entire population of the institution was sent by the Nazis from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Grzybowski Square, Warsaw Poland

Grzybowski Square is a triangular square in the Śródmieście (downtown) Warsaw.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Prozna Street (Ulica Prozna), Muranow District, Warsaw Poland

Ulica Próżna is a historical street in Warsaw, Poland. It is the only former Warsaw Ghetto street still featuring as many as four tenement houses. The street is one of the few fragments of "Jewish Warsaw" in which the climate of the old Jewish quarter is revived during the Festival of Jewish Culture – Singer’s Warsaw. The festival has been held annually every September in Próżna Street and Grzybowski Square since 2004.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Kamienico, Waliców 14, 00-851 Warszawa, Poland

The last ghost from the Ghetto - Waliców tenement house. Also - there is a fragment of ghetto wall preserved at the same place.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Chlodna Street, ul. Chlodna, Warsaw 00-000 Poland

The wooden bridge was set up near Chłodna 23 and Chłodna 26. It reached the third floor of the buildings, which allowed the “Aryan” trams, German military transports and cars to pass beneath it, as we can see in many photographs, which also depict pedestrians.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Church. St. Augustine, Nowolipki 18, 01-023 Warszawa, Poland

The Muranów district was build just after the war on the rubble of a densely built-up and vibrant Jewish district of Warsaw. Muranów is today a souvenir of the architecture and ideology of socialist realism. The Venetian origin of the Muranów name is a bitter irony of history, because the word "ghetto" was used for the first time in Venice in 1516.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Pomnik Bohaterow Getta, ul. Zamenhofa 11, Warsaw 00-001 Poland

The Ghetto Heroes Monument is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 during the Second World War. It is located in the area which was formerly a part of the Warsaw Ghetto, at the spot where the first armed clash of the uprising took place.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Jan Karski Monument, Anielewicza 6, 00-157 Warszawa, Poland

In 1942–43 Karski reported to the Polish Government-in-Exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the situation in German-occupied Poland, especially about Germany's destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and about Germany's extermination camps on Polish soil that were murdering Jews, ethnic Poles, and other nationalities.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, ul. Mordechaja Anielewicza 6, Warsaw 00-157 Poland

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a museum on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto. The Hebrew word Polin in the museum's English name means either "Poland" or "rest here" and relates to a legend about the arrival of the first Jews to Poland.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Memorial at Mila 18, Mila Corner with Dubois, Warsaw Poland

The bunker at Miła 18 was constructed by a group of underworld smugglers in 1943. On 8 May 1943, three weeks after the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when the bunker was found out by the Nazis, there were around 300 people inside.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Umschlagplatz, Corner ul. Stawki and ul. Dzika, Warsaw Poland

An Umschlagplatz was a holding area set up by Nazi Germany adjacent to a railway station, where the ghettoised Jews were assembled for deportation to death camps during the ghetto liquidation.

Duration: 15 minutes