The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto established by Nazi Germany during World War II. Created in 1940, it imprisoned over 400,000 Jews in overcrowded and inhumane conditions behind walls and barbed wire. It became a place of immense suffering, starvation, and deportations to death camps, but also of courage and resistance, culminating in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

The remaining fragments of the original Warsaw Ghetto Wall are among the most powerful symbols of World War II in Warsaw. Built by Nazi Germany in 1940, the wall imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Jews in overcrowded and brutal conditions. Today, preserved sections serve as moving reminders of suffering, separation, and the resilience of the Jewish community.

The memorial at Chłodna Street marks the site of the wooden footbridge that once connected the two parts of the Warsaw Ghetto above the street below. Used by Jews forced into the ghetto during World War II, the bridge became one of the most recognisable symbols of division, isolation, and daily life under Nazi occupation in wartime Warsaw.

The Umschlagplatz Monument marks the site where Jews were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka during WWII.

Mordehai Anielewicz bunker.

An outside visit to POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews highlights the powerful architecture and historical setting of the museum, located in the centre of the former Warsaw Ghetto. Visitors can see the striking modern glass façade, symbolic public square, and nearby memorials connected to Jewish history. Just beside the museum stands the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, commemorating the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, along with plaques and monuments honouring the courage and suffering of Warsaw’s Jewish community during World War II. We recommend making this the final stop of the tour, allowing you to continue with a 3-hour self-guided visit through the museum’s main exhibition, exploring 1,000 years of the history of Polish Jews with the help of an audioguide.