Grzybowski Square
This beautiful square is a great illustration of Warsaw`s history and its transition into future. It`s a part of the old Jewish Quarter and location of the Warsaw Ghetto. When you look around you wil...
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The Warsaw`s Praga Museum
The Warsaw’s Praga Museum is an institution which preserves the heritage and the unique atmosphere of the Praga district. It`s located in several buildings on the right side of the Vistula river at T...
The Grand Opening of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, POLIN
Finally it happened. The core exhibition of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews is open to the public. The Opening Performance was something unforgetable. The Museum façade turned into a huge sc...
Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw was founded in 1806. It`s one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe containing 250,000 graves. It`s divided into two sections, an area for women and an area for men...
Jewish Dormitory
This building was designed by Henryk Stifelman in Polish Renaissance style. The letters “AAJ” on its facade means “Auxilium Academicum Judaicum” – the Jewish Dormitory. When the Jewish o...
Museum of the History of Polish Jews. POLIN
The Museum is based in a beautiful building designed by a Finnish architects Rainer Mahlamäki and Ilmari Lahdelma. It stands in the middle of the pre-war Jewish district where Nazis created the bigge...
Praga Północ district
Praga district, an original and authentic district, undamaged during World War II. It`s located directly across the river from Warsaw’s Old Town. Through the centuries it was an independent to...
Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw
Ryfka and Zalman Nożyk Synagogue is the only synagogue in Warsaw which survived World War II. It was built between 1898-1902 in Romanesque style with Byzantine and Moorish ornaments. Its architecture...
The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw
The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw was created in 1947. It`s based in the pre-war building of the Main Judaic Library. The Library’s walls survived the fire during world war...
Praga – Warsaw`s First Jewish Community Area walking tour
Price: 75 € per tour (up to 3 people) Meeting point: upon arrangement Duration time: up to 2 hours In the XVIII-th Century the Polish King Stanisław August Poniatowski allowed his purveyor and banker...