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Warsaw: Jewish Heritage & Holocaust Walking Tour

By Orange Umbrella Tours Warsaw
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Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is €20 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

  • Learn about the 600-year-long history of the Warsaw Jewish community
  • See the Big Ghetto, the area were the fights of the Ghetto Uprising took place
  • See the places reshaped by the war contrasted with pre-war photographs

Activity location

    • Warsaw
    • Warsaw, Województwo mazowieckie, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • plac Krasińskich, 00-263 Warszawa, Polska | The meeting point is the Monument of the Warsaw Uprising (several bronze statues of WW2 soldiers) in Krasinski Square (5 minute walk away from the Old Town). Look for a guide holding an orange umbrella with a British flag on it. The group will be there until 10:15 AM, later you can catch the group by a small lake in Krasinski Garden (in Google Maps look for the SCULPTURE ON THE WATER).
    • Warszawa, Województwo mazowieckie, Poland

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Warsaw: Jewish Heritage & Holocaust Walking Tour

  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 30 minutes2h 30m
    2h 30m
  • English

The meeting point is different than in the last season.

Language options: English
Starting time: 10:00
Price details
€19.79 x 1 Adult€19.79
Total
Price is €19.79

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Professional guide
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Walking tour
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Entrance fees to attractions

Know before you book

  • Not allowed: Smoking
  • Not suitable for: Children under 10 years
  • 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).

What you can expect

Discover the 600-year-long history of the Warsaw Jewish community, from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust. Understand the origins of Polish Jews, learn about life in the medieval Jewish quarter and the first expulsions.

Learn about the 18th-century Jewish settlements within jurydki, areas under the jurisdiction of the Warsaw magnates, and the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. On old photographs see the life in the 19th-century and pre-war Jewish District of Warsaw.

More than half of the tour is dedicated to the Holocaust of the Warsaw Jews. Learn about the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto, the conditions of life behind the wall, and the deportations to Treblinka death camp.

Finally, see all the major places related to the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Location

Activity location

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    • Warsaw
    • Warsaw, Województwo mazowieckie, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • plac Krasińskich, 00-263 Warszawa, Polska | The meeting point is the Monument of the Warsaw Uprising (several bronze statues of WW2 soldiers) in Krasinski Square (5 minute walk away from the Old Town). Look for a guide holding an orange umbrella with a British flag on it. The group will be there until 10:15 AM, later you can catch the group by a small lake in Krasinski Garden (in Google Maps look for the SCULPTURE ON THE WATER).
    • Warszawa, Województwo mazowieckie, Poland