Private Retro Minibus Tour of Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto

After hotel pickup, the tour begins at the monument dedicated to Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish educator and author. As the director of a Warsaw orphanage, he refused to abandon the children in his care and was deported with them to the Treblinka extermination camp.

The next stop is Grzybowski Square, once part of Jewish Warsaw and today a symbol of the city’s turbulent 20th-century history.

Próżna Street is the only street in Warsaw where pre-war Jewish tenement houses have survived. It remains a key place for commemorating Jewish culture and hosts events such as the annual Singer’s Warsaw Festival.

You will then visit preserved fragments of the Ghetto Wall, including sections incorporated into later buildings that once marked the boundaries of the ghetto. The three best-known parts of the wall are located in the former small ghetto, although some are periodically not accessible: the guide takes you to one of them.

One of the most striking sites is the ruined tenement house on Waliców Street, often described as the last visible ghost of the ghetto, where another fragment of the wall can also be seen.

At Chłodna and Żelazna Streets, your guide explains the story of the famous wooden ghetto bridge that connected the two separated parts of the ghetto above active street traffic. Archival photographs help bring this extraordinary structure back to life.

The tour continues to Muranów, a postwar residential district built directly on the rubble of the destroyed ghetto.

Here, you visit the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and the area surrounding the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, close to the site of the first armed clashes of the 1943 uprising.

At Mila 18, learn about the bunker used by Jewish resistance fighters. When discovered by the Nazis in May 1943, many of those hiding inside chose death rather than capture. Their remains are buried in the basement beneath the site.

The tour concludes at the Umschlagplatz, the former deportation point where Jews were loaded onto trains bound for 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.