Taking walks
LIST OF UPCOMING WALKS AROUND THE FORMER WARSAW GHETTO
📅 May 24, 2026 (Sunday), 11:00 AM | 🔹 Chłodna Street
📍 Meeting point: In front of the Gruby Josek restaurant, al. Jana Pawła II 27, Atrium Centrum building
🎯 End of the walk: The area around the intersection of Chłodna and Wronia streets
Chłodna Street – currently a quiet backstreet at the back of busy Jana Pawła II Avenue, but once a major thoroughfare, serving as Warsaw's historic gateway from the west. Once a street of many facets: a connection between working-class Wola and the elegant Śródmieście district; a center of commerce and small-scale industry; a Warsaw salon comparable to the elegant Śródmieście district, but with entertainment tailored to the tastes of Wola's underprivileged residents; a street of Poles with a distinct Jewish presence; and during the ghetto era – a border street, a symbol of imprisonment, yet simultaneously a symbol of a free Warsaw. Contradictions? Paradoxes? We will ponder this during a walk along Chłodna Street.
🧭 The walk will be led by Katarzyna Jankowiak from the Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum.
📅 June 14, 2026 (Sunday), 14:00 p.m. |🔹 In fact (W ramach programu publicznego wystawy plenerowej „Miła – stan rzeczy”)
📍 Meeting point: Behind the entrance gate of the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street
🎯 End of the walk: At the starting point of the walk
🎟️ Free registration required: LINK
An archaeological tour of the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw, focusing on the specifics of conducting research at sites containing Jewish remains, will feature a presentation of current fieldwork and selected objects discovered during the research. The tour will be led jointly by Szymon Lenarczyk and Zofia Kowarska (Wykop na Poziomie), who are leading the research at the cemetery, and Aleksander Schwarz, who is supervising the work on behalf of the Rabbinical Commission for Cemeteries at the Office of the Chief Rabbi of Poland.
The walk will be led by Szymon Lenarczyk and Zofia Kowarska (Wykop na Poziomie), who are in charge of the research at the cemetery , and Aleksander Schwarz, who supervises the work on behalf of the Rabbinical Commission for Cemeteries at the Office of the Chief Rabbi of Poland.
📅 June 28 (Sunday), 11:00 AM |🔹 Nowolipki Street
📍 Meeting point: Corner of Nowolipek and Gen. Andersa Streets (on the Mostowski Palace side)
🎯 End of the walk: The area around Żelazna Street
🎟️ Free registration required: LINK
A stroll along Nowolipki Street, a story about a passion for science and knowledge, illusions and hopes, and finally, miracles—both perceived and real. It will be a journey through time: from picturesque 18th-century gardens, through the hustle and bustle of the interwar Jewish street, through the tragedy of the ghetto and post-war ruins, to contemporary Muranów and our memories of its former inhabitants. Comfortable shoes will be needed, but above all, imagination.
🧭 The walk will be led by Katarzyna Jankowiak from the Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, a guide to the POLIN Museum and Jewish Warsaw.
📅 July 19 (Sunday), 11:00 AM - 14:00 PM |🔹 Walk on the anniversary of the Great Liquidation Action in the Warsaw Ghetto
📍 Meeting point: corner of Żelazna and Chłodna, at the so-called Memorial Footbridge.
🎯 End: Stawki Street / corner of Dzika Street, at the Umschlagplatz monument
⏳ Duration: approx. 3 hours
The walk will focus on the events that took place in the Warsaw Ghetto in the summer of 1942. From accounts by ghetto residents, we'll learn what was happening on Chłodna, Żelazna, Dzielna, Karmelicka, and Zamenhofa Streets. We'll hear about the fame of Żelazna 103, what happened at Nowolipki 68, the so-called "Cauldron on Miła Street," and what decisions Jewish doctors made to save their patients from deportation to Treblinka.
🧭 The walk will be led by Katarzyna Jankowiak from the Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, a guide to the POLIN Museum and Jewish Warsaw.
📅 August 23 (Sunday), hrs. |🔹 A walk through the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street (spacer w ramach festiwalu „Warszawa Singera”)
📍 Meeting point: Behind the cemetery entrance gate
🎯 End of the walk: At the starting point of the walk
Material traces of the Jewish presence in the city are scarce. The cemetery on Okopowa Street is the only surviving site that tells the story of Jewish life in Warsaw over a period of over 200 years. It was opened in 1806, shortly after the establishment of the Jewish community. It is one of only two Jewish cemeteries still in existence in the capital. The cemetery on Okopowa Street survived World War II only partially devastated.
We invite you to take a walk in the footsteps of people connected with the Warsaw Ghetto, buried in the Wola necropolis.
🧭 The walk will be led by Dr. Halina Postek , head of the Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum.
📅 August 29 (Saturday), 6:00 p.m. | 🔹 Mila Street (spacer w ramach festiwalu „Warszawa Singera”)
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"Mud, damp, stuffy, tuberculosis." These are the words that poet Władysław Broniewski used to describe Miła Street shortly before the outbreak of World War II. Miła was one of the most neglected streets in pre-war Warsaw. It suffered during the siege of the city in 1939 and later found itself within the ghetto. We invite you on a walking tour during which we will learn about the daily worries of the people who once lived here. Thanks to archival photographs, we will discover details of its former appearance. We will also visit the archaeological site located next to the headquarters of the Jewish Combat Organization at the former address of Miła 18. We will discuss the extent to which archaeologists' work expands our knowledge of the events that unfolded here during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
🧭 The walk will be led by Dr. Mariusz Jastrząb, historian and cultural expert, academic lecturer, employee of the Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum
📅 September 20 (Sunday), 6:00 p.m. |🔹 Leszno Street
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We invite you for a walk along one of the main streets of the former Jewish district. During the walk, we'll learn about the Sztuka café and the Femina theater, two of the most important cultural landmarks in the Warsaw Ghetto. We'll stop at the site of Emanuel Ringelblum, the creator of the secret ghetto archive. Together, we'll discover what's true and what's legend in the stories about Jewish children being led out of the ghetto through the courthouse on Leszno Street.
🧭 The walk will be led by Dr. Mariusz Jastrząb, historian and cultural expert, academic lecturer, employee of the Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum
📅 October 25 (Sunday), 6:00 p.m. | 🔹 In the footsteps of the Warsaw Ghetto walls
📍 Meeting point: Behind the cemetery entrance gate
🎯 End of the walk: At the starting point of the walk
Material traces of the Jewish presence in the city are scarce. The cemetery on Okopowa Street is the only surviving site that tells the story of Jewish life in Warsaw over a period of over 200 years. It was opened in 1806, shortly after the establishment of the Jewish community. It is one of only two Jewish cemeteries still in existence in the capital. The cemetery on Okopowa Street survived World War II only partially devastated.
We invite you to take a walk in the footsteps of people connected with the Warsaw Ghetto, buried in the Wola necropolis.
🧭 The walk will be led by Dr. Halina Postek , head of the Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum.