The Warsaw Jewish ghetto half day tour

In the Warsaw ghetto, divided into 2 sections (the Small Ghetto at the southern end and the Large Ghetto on the north), 450, 000 Jews were forced to live in very crowded conditions. By the time deportations to the extermination camps began, about 100, 000 residents of the Ghetto had died of starvation or disease. After the 1943 Uprising, the ruins of the Ghetto were leveled, and a new residential district was built right on top of them, making the new buildings one level higher than the pre-war buildings had been. ROUTE: ghetto area (remains of ghetto walls, synagogue, monuments and historical sites), Jewish cemetery, Jewish Historical Institute (exhibition about the Warsaw Ghetto Archives - optional). Optional: the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (please have in mind the visit takes minimum 2 hours)