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Discover Jewish Warsaw  It is also renowned for the courageous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and today the city is the center of the movement within Poland to re-establish Jewish communities. We begin at the Jewish Historical Institute, a centre for the study of the culture and history of Polish Jews, located in the building which once housed both of the Main Judaic Library and Institute of Judaic Studies. Next door was the former Great Synagogue. We will see the Ester Rahel Kaminska State Jewish Theatre, named after 'the mother of Yiddish theatre'. The Jewish Cemetery of Warsaw (1806) has graves of several important figures. There is also a memorial stone to those who fought in the 1943 ghetto uprising and a memorial to the children who were interned in the ghetto. At the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes it is time to remember the Warsaw ghetto uprising; pieces of the former ghetto walls serve as haunting memorials as well.  At the Umschlagplatz Memorial we mourn the loss of 300,000 Warsaw Jews who were deported en masse to Treblinka extermination camp. The memorial structure is reminiscent of a freight car, with representative names of victims on the wall and a tree of hope planted inside one of the walls. That hope has come alive in today's Jewish community of Warsaw, which is small but vibrant.We will visit the neo-Romanesque Nozyk Synagogue, the only surviving synagogue from the pre-war period. In the 1970's the offices of the Warsaw Jewish Community and the Union of Jewish Communities in Poland were moved here and it also now houses the offices of 'Midrasz', the Jewish monthly newspaper, and the Head Rabbi of Warsaw and Poland, making this the centre of Jewish life in today's Warsaw. Along the route we will see general sites such as: Castle Square, St. John's Cathedral, the Old Town Market Square, the Tomb of Unknown Soldier, the Monument of Warsaw Uprising, the Victims of Katyn, the Royal Castle and the Grand Theatre among others. Tour Options 3 hour walking tour of Jewish sites 5 hour driving tour of Jewish and General sites Please see the "Discover Europe" section of our website for further tour options in Warsaw.
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