Yesterday was October the 2nd, the day in which Warsaw Uprising has ended. Beneath a short infographic about this terrifying event in Warsaw history. Continue reading
Warsaw Uprising infographic
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Category Archives: Warsaw Ghetto
Umschlagplatz
In the Holocaust, the Umschlagplatz (German: collection point or reloading point) in the Warsaw Ghetto was where Jews gathered for deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp. Continue reading
Mila 18
Memorial stone to the Jewish ghetto heroes of the Z.O.B. (Jewish Fighting Organization) who died in an underground bunker beneath the house at ul. Mila 18 during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April and May 1943. The stone sits on top of a mound of rubble, where the house at this address once stood; it is turned slightly toward Mila street which is to the left. The street is still named Mila, but #18 is no longer an address there. Continue reading
The Jewish Historical Institute
(Żydowski Instytut Historyczny)
This building was built in 1928-1936 as the library of the Great Synagogue. It also housed the Judaic Studies Institute, where scholars of the caliber of Majer Bałaban, Mojżesz Schor and Ignacy Schiper lectured.
The building was within the Ghetto during the war and housed the offces of the Jewish Mutual Aid Society. Here, Emanuel Ringelblum, who worked in the Society, created the underground archive of the Ghetto. In 1947, following its restoration, the building became the headquarters of the Jewish Historical Institute. It has extensive art, archival documents and photographic collections. Its greatest treasure is the recovered Ringelblum Archives. Art collections are on display in the permanent exhibitions: ‘The Warsaw Ghetto’ and ‘The Gallery of Jewish Art’.
www. jewishinstitute.org.pl
ul. Tłomackie 3/5
Próżna Street
(ulica Próżna)
This is the only former Warsaw Ghetto street still featuring all its tenement houses.
It 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.
Zelman and Rywka Nożyk Synagogue
The only Synagogue which survived the World War II. It was erected in the years 1898-1902, and in 1903, by right of a testament of its founders, it was handed over to the Warsaw Jewish Community.
Before the War, Jewish people had over 400 houses of prayer in Warsaw. During the German occupation, the Synagogue was within the so-called ”Small Ghetto” and the Nazis used it as a stable. After the renovation 1977-1983, a building housing the offices of the Religious Union of Mosaic Confession in Polish Republic and in Warsaw was built on its east side. The Synagogue may be visited daily, except for Saturday during prayer hours. Entry is not free.
Ul. Twarda 6
Jewish Cemetery
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, Author Håkan Henriksson
A priceless treasure of Jewish Warsaw situated next to Powazki Cemetary. Established in 1806, it is one of the last remaining open and active Jewish cemeteries in Poland. During World War II it was encompassed in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Around 200,000 tombstones can be found at the cemetery, many of which have great historical and artistic value. Continue reading
Fragments of the Ghetto Wall
On November 16, 1940 the Ghetto was surrounded by a 3-meter-high wall. Some 500,000 Jews from Warsaw and its neighborhood were imprisoned here on 307 hectares (758 acres).
The only surviving fragment of the Ghetto wall is located in the yard of a house in Sienna Street, between Sienna Street and Złota Street. To see it, you have to enter from 62 Złota Street as the gate at 55 Sienna Street has been permanently closed.
At other locations, almost nothing remains of the Ghetto. In order to protect this tragic part of the history of the city from being forgotten, 21 locations demarcating the limits of the Ghetto walls were designated with 21 plaques. Whenever possible, beside the plaques with maps, photographs and descriptions in Polish and in English, there are pavement-embedded cast iron plates indicating the width of the wall.
ul. Złota 62