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