In 1940, Chłodna Street found itself within the ghetto. (...) the cobblestones and tram tracks themselves were already outside the closed district ," says Hanna Dzielińska (Hanka Warszawianka), journalist and tour guide. In the twelfth part of "Walks in the Footsteps of the Ghetto," she tells the story of Chłodna Street , which divided the so-called Jewish residential district into two parts – the small and large ghettos – until January 26, 1942, when a footbridge connecting them was built. On the same street, at number 20 in the famous Tenement House under the Clock, lived Adam Czerniaków – an engineer, senator, Warsaw councilor, and president of the Warsaw Judenrat.
"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.
