Mapping Jewish Warsaw

The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a museum situated on the site of the sometime Warsaw Ghetto. Over the concluding twelvemonth the museum has created a yoke of fascinating interactive maps exploring the history of Warsaw's Jews as well as the plight of the city's Jews nether Nazi business inwards the Second World War.

The Right Address: Hiding Jews inwards Occupied Warsaw tells the stories of Warsaw citizens who helped the Jews during World War II. The primary navigation method used to access the stories is a vintage map of the urban kernel which allows you lot to select these stories past times neighborhood.

Pick a neighborhood from the primary map as well as you lot tin stance a close-up map of the neighborhood. This map includes the selection to stance a modern map of the urban kernel overlaid on elevation of the vintage map. Each neighborhood map includes a description of the neighborhood inwards the 1940's as well as a brief business concern human relationship of Nazi action inwards the area.

Each neighborhood map every bit good includes a release of markers. If you lot click on these markers you lot tin larn nearly how private Jews as well as families were sheltered past times non-Jewish citizens at addresses throughout the city.


Jewish Warsaw is a mapped business concern human relationship of the long history of the Jewish community inwards the Polish capital. It examines the urban kernel through the eyes of around of Warsaw's most influential Jewish citizens as well as examines around of the important, frequently turbulent, historical events that arrive at got effected Jewish citizens inwards Warsaw.

The Janusz Korczak department of Jewish Warsaw presents 2 interactive mapped journeys exploring the life of the famous Jewish educator as well as children's author. One of the maps takes you lot on a journeying through Korczak's life inwards pre-war Warsaw. The other map recounts Korczak's bravery inwards World War II as well as his deportation as well as expiry at Treblinka extermination camp.

In the Past as well as Present department you lot tin larn to a greater extent than nearly the history of the Jewish community inwards Warsaw through a serial of interactive vintage maps of the city. This department includes an business concern human relationship of the long history of Jews inwards Warsaw, a mapped business concern human relationship of the Jewish ghetto as well as Holocaust inwards World War II as well as a release of walking tours through the Warsaw of today.