Symcha Trachter : light and color

This exhibition summarizes two years of research into the life and work of one of the most remarkable Polish painters of the interwar period, who died in Treblinka. After the 1930 exhibition at the Jewish Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts, this is the second complete presentation of this artist’s work.The authors of the exhibition look at Trachter’s work and life through the ...

Here Muranow

The temporary exhibition Tu Muranów shows a cross section through the hidden layers of the history of the Warsaw housing estate, telling about selected places, their inhabitants and visitors. Let’s explore the city together – discover the extraordinary multi-level history of Warsaw. Under the seemingly familiar layer, we will discover new dimensions of the past, present and future ...

Katyn Museum in Warsaw

Ul. Jana Jeziorańskiego 4, 01 783 Varsovie +48 261 878 342 www. muzeumkatynskie.pl

Warsaw Uprising Museum

Ul. Grzybowska 79, 00-844 Warsaw + 48 22 539 79 05 www.1944.pl

Jewish Cemetery of Warsaw

Okopowa 49/51, 01-043 Warszawa +48 22 838 26 22

Warsaw-Jerusalem Restaurant

Smocza 27, Warszawa +48 22 838 32 17

POLIN, The Museum of History of Polish Jews

6 Mordechaja Anielewicza St., 00-157 Warsaw +48 22 471 03 01 http://www.polin.pl/

Cultural Association of Polish Jews

Pl. Grzybowski 12/16, 00–104 Warszawa +48 22 620 05 58 http://tskz.pl/

Panstwowy Teatr Zydowski of Warsaw

Plac Grzybowski 12/16, 00-104 Warszawa +48 22 620 62 81 http://www.teatr-zydowski.art.pl/

Nozykow Synagogue of Warsaw

Twarda 6, Warszawa +48 502 400 849

Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw

Tłomackie 3/5, 00-001 Warszawa +48 22 827 92 21 http://www.jhi.pl/en

Bialystok

Poland > Podlasie

From Treblinka, rather than return to Warsaw in the evening, you can travel on to Bialystok, near Belarus, a city with a Jewish tradition so strong that in 1913, Jews numbered 61500, or 70% of the population. Of the one hundred synagogues and houses of prayer -the three main ones being the Groyse Shul on Szkolna Street, the Chorszul (Choral Street) on Zydowska Street, and the Pulkowa ...

Treblinka

Poland > Mazovia

Arriving in Treblinka by train recalls the horror of the Warsaw Ghetto inhabitants’ final trip from the Umschlagplatz to the gaz chambers. To reach Treblinka from Malkinia, the railway line follows hairpin switches: the train must therefore stop and travel in reverse, with the locomotive pushing the cars toward the camp, as explained by railroad worker Henryk Galkowski in Shoah, a train ...

Mazovia

Yiddishland

The visitor to Eastern Europe hoping to discover a rich Jewish architectural heritage must remember that what was once the center of Judaic cultural and religious life in Europe -principally in Lithuania between the eighteenth century and the Shoah- had disappeared beyond ruins and cemeteries. The complete eradication of a Jewish presence, the sworn objective of the Nazis, was conducted with ...