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Warsaw for WWII Buffs - private tour with hotel pickup

By Warsaw Behind the Scenes
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Free cancellation available
Price is €270 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup

Overview

This private tour is designed for travellers with a strong interest in the history of World War II. Travelling through Warsaw in a retro Żuk minibus, you’ll explore the city’s wartime storey in chronological order—from the outbreak of the war and the Nazi occupation, through resistance and uprisings, to the dramatic consequences WWII brought to Poland and Europe.

You’ll visit places where history is still visible in the urban landscape: buildings marked by bullet holes and ricochets, preserved fragments of the Jewish Ghetto wall, and hidden mounds of rubble that silently testify to the scale of destruction.

Stories shared by your guide are supported by archival photographs, allowing you to compare the past with the present and better understand how the city once looked. Travelling by vintage Żuk minibus adds a unique historical dimension, turning this experience into a journey through time rather than a standard sightseeing tour.

Activity location

  • Warsaw
    • Warsaw, Poland, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Warsaw
    • Warsaw, Poland, Poland

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3 hours private tour

  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English

Language: English
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
€270.00 x 1 Adult€270.00
Total
Price is €270.00

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Professional English speaking local guide
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Transport by retro communist minibus
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Hotel / apartment Pickup and drop-off within 3 km radius of city centre
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Tip or service charge

Know before you book

  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • This tour can be booked instantly online for adults and children over 150 cm (4 ft 9 in). If you wish to book the tour for a child under 150 cm, please contact the tour operator in advance to check the availability of seat boosters, which are mandatory under Polish law.
  • Each minibus accommodates up to 8 passengers, and a fleet of 5 minibuses is available.
  • The vehicles are used primarily for transfers between locations, with walking segments at each stop. Please wear comfortable clothing and suitable footwear.
  • Please note that classic vintage minibuses are not equipped with air conditioning, and some do not have seat belts (which is permitted for historic vehicles). All vehicles are equipped with heating for the winter season.
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Warsaw

  • 20m
Begin your private tour in central Warsaw, where the scars of World War II are still woven into the cityscape. Travelling by retro Żuk minibus allows you to cover a wide range of locations comfortably while maintaining a clear historical narrative.

Warsaw

  • 15m
Your guide introduces the political climate of the late 1930s, the German invasion of Poland in 1939, and the simultaneous Soviet occupation of eastern Poland. Learn how these events shaped life in Warsaw and led to the emergence of an extensive resistance movement.

Waliców

  • 25m
A central chapter of World War II history in Poland is the tragedy of the Jewish population, persecuted and murdered by Nazi Germany. Before the war, Poland was home to approximately three million Jews, including around 300,000 in Warsaw. In 1940, the Nazis established the Warsaw Ghetto, forcibly confining nearly half a million people within its walls. Today, several fragments of the former Ghetto Wall remain, hidden between buildings and along pre-war property lines. Your guide will take you to one of these preserved sections, helping you understand how the ghetto’s boundaries once divided the city and shaped everyday life during the occupation.

Chlodna Street

  • 10m
In 1941 Ghetto was divided into two parts by Chłodna street, used for East-West transfer traffic. The wooden bridge was built near the crossroads of Chłodna and Żelazna streets to link two parts. It reached the third floor of the buildings, which allowed the “Aryan” trams, German military transports and cars to pass beneath it, as we can see in many photographs.

Waliców

  • 10m
The Waliców street tenement house is, as we say, the last ghost from the Ghetto since it remains a ruin up to now. Also - there is a fragment of the Ghetto wall preserved in the same place.

Muranów

  • 10m
The next stop is the Muranów district. Again, the first impression is that it is just a regular neighbourhood filled with squared blocks of flats. But there is much more from the past to be discovered with the help of a guide.

Pomnik Bohaterow Getta

  • 20m
The tour includes a visit to the area of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews—two key symbolic sites connected to the Warsaw Ghetto. Both are located near the place where the first armed clashes of the 1943 Ghetto Uprising occurred. Today, the area also represents decades of dialogue, remembrance, and reconciliation among Polish, Jewish, and German communities.

Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East

  • 10m
On September 17th 1939, two weeks after the outbreak of WWII in Europe, Poland was attacked by the Soviet Union, and the Eastern part of our country was lost forever. After the fall of the USSR, the Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East was erected in honour of Poles deported to Gulags in Siberia, killed in executions and the victims of the Katyń massacres.

Warsaw Uprising Monument

  • 10m
The final chapter focuses on the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, the city’s last attempt to regain independence before the arrival of the Red Army. After the uprising’s defeat, Nazi forces systematically destroyed most of Warsaw. The Soviet army entered the empty ruins in January 1945, beginning a new era of communist rule.

Location

Activity location

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    Warsaw
    • Warsaw, Poland, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Warsaw
    • Warsaw, Poland, Poland

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