Today, it's difficult to imagine what a closed, isolated part of the capital looked like, but the ghetto's boundaries can be found within the city space , says Hanna Dzielińska (Hanka Warszawianka), journalist and tour guide. The fourteenth installment in the series "Warsaw Walks in the Footsteps of the Ghetto" outlines the area and circumstances surrounding the creation of the so-called Jewish residential district, once separated from the rest of the world by the Ghetto Wall . The gradually deteriorating living conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto and the despair of its inhabitants are reflected in the excerpts from the diary of Chaim Aron Kapłan, a Hebrew teacher and founder of the Six-Class Elementary School.
"Varsavianist Walks in the Footsteps of the Ghetto" is a film series of 16 columns revealing the history of places and the people connected with them. The following sites will be presented: Umschlagplatz; Anielewicz Mound; Szmul Zygielbojm Monument; Ghetto Heroes Monument; Grzybowski Square; Mariańska Street and the Nursing School; the Nożyk Synagogue; the Great Synagogue on Tłomackie Street; Nalewki Street; the Femina Cinema and Theatre; the Courts on Leszno Street; Chłodna Street; Waliców Street; the Jewish Cemetery and the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital – the site of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum's permanent exhibition.
The series is presented as part of the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto borders, organized by the Warsaw Ghetto Museum in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland (TSKŻ). The main commemorations took place on November 16, 2020.
