The traces of the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw Tour

This tour refers to the most horrendous times in the history of Warsaw During the occupation by the Germans in years 1939-1945 the city was divided into three zones. They locked part of the city behind the 3m high walł and brought into it Jews from all over Warsaw, Mazovia district, Berlin and other places. This 300ha big area was named the ghetto. Living conditions for over 400, 000 Jews enclosed were horrible. In summer 1942 the Germans started the deportation action to the Treblinka extermination camp. Cramped and oppressed, hungered and persecuted, in desperation, the Jews who were still living in the Warsaw ghetto (approx. 50 000 people) stood up against the Germans in April 1943. After one month of heroic fights the Ghetto Uprising was brutally crushed. It was the first uprising in the occupied Europe. Although the area of the former Ghetto has lost most of its pre-war Jewish character, various monuments and important buildings convey the tragic fate of Warsaw's Jews. We will have a walk there