Jewish Sites in Today's Warsaw

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Jewish Sites in Today's Warsaw

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Post by henryk » 16 Feb 2012, 22:01

Following is my short abstract from the site. I have used quoting as much of the text is copied from the site.
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Judaica tour: Historical sites of Jewish Warsaw

==Jerozolimskie (Jerusalem) Avenue: named by Jewish settlers on it.
==Próżna Street: This is the only former Warsaw Ghetto street still featuring all its tenement houses
==51 Prosta Street: On this street is a manhole leading to a tunnel which, in May 1943, was used by dozen of insurgents escaping the Ghetto
==The Ester Rachel Kamińska and Ida Kamińska Jewish Theatre (Teatr Żydowski im. Estery Rachel i Idy Kamińskich) plac Grzybowski 12/16

==Nożyk Synagogue (Synagoga im. Małżonków Nożyków) ul.Twarda 6: The only pre-war synagogue in Warsaw still in use. A German stable in WWII.
==6 Twarda Street: One of the few surviving buildings on this street. In the inter-war period it contained many Jewish institutes and a Jewish Community out-patient clinic. Fragments of a sign remain in the first stairwell in Polish, Hebrew and Yiddish, with information about the clinic.
==Fragment of Ghetto Wall at 55 Sienna Street (Fragment muru getta przy ulicy Siennej 55)
==The former Bersons and Baumans Children’s Hospital, now Warsaw Children’s Hospital
(dawny Szpital Dziecięcy im.Bersonów i Baumanów, obecnie im. Dzieci Warszawy) ul. Sienna 60 / ul. Śliska 55

==20 Chłodna Street: Chłodna Street was outside the Ghetto in autumn 1941, though the houses on the north and south side of the street from Elektoralna to Żelazna Streets were in the ‘little’ and ‘big’ Ghettos. Adam Czerniaków, president of the Jewish Community (Judenrat), lived in a building that survives at 20 Chłodna Street.
==22 Chłodna Street (former 24-26): At this point early in 1942 a wooden footbridge was built for Jews crossing between the ‘little’ and ‘big’ Ghettos.
==Waliców Street: Just three buildings have survived, on the east side of this street. Residences of prominent Jews.
==House of Religious Studies (Dom Studiów Religinych) ul. Żelazna 57: A fragment of a house belonging to Izaak Majer Alter in 1864.

==The Janusz Korczak Orphanage (Dom Sierot Janusza Korczaka) ul. Jaktorowska 6 (formerly ul. Krochmalna 92): In the years 1911-1913 the Orphans Aid Society built a two-storey building on the city outskirts for Jewish orphans.
==The monument to the Memory of Jews and Poles (Pomnik Wspólnego Męczeństwa Żydóów i Polaków) ul. Gibalskiego 21: In 1989 a monument was raised to commemorate the mass graves of Poles and Jews killed during the World War II.
==The Jewish Cemetery (Cmentarz Żydowski) ul. Okopowa 49/51: Founded in 1806, this is one of the few Jewish cemeteries still functioning in Poland. Around 200,000 gravestones have survived.
==Concentration camp, the so-called Gęsiówka (Obóz koncentracyjny tzw. Gęsiówka) ul. Anielewicza 34: The Nazis set up the Konzentrationslager Warschau called the Gęsiówka concentration camp on the ruins of the Ghetto in August 1943.

==Umschlagplatz ul. Stawki 10: This is the square where starting 22 July 1942 transports of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto left for the extermination camp at Treblinka. A monument was built here in 1988.
==The Route Recalling the Martyrdom and the Struggle of the Jews 1940-1943
(Trakt Pamięci Męczeństwa i Walki Żydów 1940-1943) The Route runs between the Umschlagplatz and the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto. It is designated by blocks of black stone with the names of individuals active in the Warsaw Ghetto carved into the stone blocks.
==S. Dubois Street, at the corner of Miła Street: In this spot, there was once a house, and in its basement a bunker was built, which in 1943 served as the headquarters of Jewish Resistance Organisation. After the war, in 1946, on the ruins of the house a small monument was built. In 2006, at the bottom of the burial mound, a stone in the form of a pyramid was placed.

==The Ghetto Heroes Monument (Pomnik Bohaterów Getta) Corner of L. Zamenhofa Street and Anielewicza Street. A monument honoring those who died during the Ghetto Uprising in 1943. The monument is coated with slabs made of stone which was imported to Poland from Sweden, as a material for planned monuments commemorating Hitler's victories.
==Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich) Currently in the construction stage.
==The Great Synagogue (Wielka Synagoga) (nowadays here is a Blue Tower / Błękitny Wieżowiec)
ul. Tłomackie 7: Destroyed in 1943.
==The Jewish Historical Institute (Żydowski Instytut Historyczny) (formerly the Judaic Library)
ul. Tłomackie 3/5: This building was built in 1928-1936 as the library of the Great Synagogue. Restored in 1947.
==The Jewish Cemetery (Cmentarz Żydowski) ul. św. Wincentego: Graves destroyed.

==28 Jagiellońska Street (Education Building): An inscription has survived on the pediment: ‘Michałl Bergson Education Building of the Warsaw Jewish Community’.
==University Hall of Residence (now a police residential hotel) ul. Sierakowskiego 7: Built in 1926 for Jewish university students. Among the students who lived here was Menachem Begin, a law student at Warsaw University, the future prime minister of Israel and Noble Peace Prize winner.
==The Mikvah (Mykwa) ul. ks. Kłopotowskiego 31 (formerly ul. Szeroka); Of the entire Jewish Community complex of buildings only a mid-19th-century mikvah (ritual bathhouse) survives. After the war it was rebuilt.
==50/52 Targowa Street: This is the oldest residential building in Praga, built in 1819. Before 1839 it held a Jewish elementary school, and three houses of prayer in the courtyard. Fragments of wall paintings (frescos) depicting signs of the zodiac, the Wailing Wall and Rachel’s Tomb survive in two of them.

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