Warsaw Jewish Ghetto: private tour by retro car with hotel pickup

After hotel pickup, your guide introduces the historical background of Jewish Warsaw and the creation of the Jewish Ghetto during World War II, setting the context for the sites you are about to visit.

The tour begins at the monument dedicated to Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish educator, author, and director of a Warsaw orphanage. Despite opportunities to escape, he chose to remain with the children in his care and was deported with them to the Treblinka extermination camp.

Next, visit Grzybowski Square, once part of Jewish Warsaw and today a place that reflects the city’s dramatic 20th-century history. The area witnessed two world wars, two totalitarian systems, and the transformation of modern Europe. Nearby streets still preserve traces of pre-war Jewish life.

Próżna Street is the only street in Warsaw where pre-war Jewish tenement houses have survived. Today, it stands as a rare physical reminder of Jewish Warsaw and becomes a focal point during the annual Singer’s Warsaw Jewish Culture Festival.

Visit a preserved fragment of the Warsaw Ghetto Wall, marking the former boundary of the ghetto. Some sections remain hidden between buildings, and your guide takes you to one of the accessible locations to explain how the area was sealed off from the rest of the city.

At Waliców Street, see a ruined tenement house often referred to as the last visible “ghost” of the ghetto. A fragment of the ghetto wall is also preserved here, offering a powerful visual reminder of destruction and loss.

At Chłodna Street, learn about the wooden bridge built in 1941 to connect the two separated parts of the ghetto. The bridge rose above active street traffic, allowing trams and German vehicles to pass underneath. Archival photographs help illustrate this extraordinary structure.

Continue to Muranów, a post-war residential district built directly on the rubble of the destroyed ghetto. Although it appears to be a typical neighborhood, the ground beneath holds layers of wartime history revealed through your guide’s explanations.

Visit the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, located near the site of the first armed clashes of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The area also symbolizes post-war remembrance and reconciliation through events held over the last several decades.

Stop outside the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, built on the former ghetto grounds. The museum’s name refers to a legend connected with Jewish settlement in Poland. Entrance is optional and not included in the tour price.

At Mila 18, learn about the bunker used by Jewish resistance fighters during the 1943 uprising. When discovered by German Nazi forces, many of those hiding inside chose death rather than capture. Their remains are buried beneath the site.

The tour concludes at the Umschlagplatz, the former deportation point where Jews were transported to the Treblinka extermination camp. Today, the memorial at Stawki Street stands as a solemn reminder of the final chapter of Jewish life in wartime Warsaw.