Warsaw Ghetto tour, your own guide.

The Warsaw Ghetto tour this site books is a private walk of 3 hours, guided for your party alone in English or German. Pickup is available, with the options shown when you check a date; otherwise you meet the guide, who holds a sign, at Prozna Street 9. From there the walk moves through the streets that lay inside the Ghetto.

Its listing names what you will see: stretches of ghetto wall, the ghetto's last street, the districts that lay within it, the deportation square called the Umschlagplatz, the Ghetto Heroes monument, and a synagogue that came through the war and still holds services. The synagogue charges its own small entry fee of PLN 20 or EUR 5.

The booking asks nothing up front: reserve now, pay later, and cancel free until 24 hours before the start. The private walk starts from €74; pick a date and party size in the booking box to see what it costs on that day. Our other pages cover prices, private and group walks, free walks, the tours compared, POLIN and how to prepare.

The Polish tourism organisation names May to June and September to October as the best times to visit Poland, still warm and with fewer tourists. In autumn the weather turns changeable, and November brings rain and lower temperatures; in winter the days become visibly shorter.

The nearest temperature record for this site comes from Siedlce, 85.6 km east, where the July average high reaches 24.9 °C and the January one only 0.6 °C. Rainfall is read at Warsaw-Okecie, 9.4 km away, where July averages 75 mm of rain, the most of any month.

Dress for standing rather than for walking. Much of the walk is spent listening at memorials, where cold and wind reach you first. A hat and gloves in winter, a rain layer in spring and autumn, and water in summer make the 3 hours easier.

The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes went up soon after the war in memory of those who fought and fell in the Ghetto. In 1970 Chancellor Willy Brandt of Germany knelt before it, a gesture of apology for the Third Reich. Today the POLIN Museum rises behind it.

From the Umschlagplatz, transports of Jews left for the Treblinka extermination camp from July 22, 1942. The memorial there recalls the ghetto wall and a railway wagon, and the names of victims are carved into its walls. It is the quietest stop of the walk, and often the one that stays with you longest.

Linking the monument and the Umschlagplatz is the Memorial Route, a line of stones that recall key figures of the Ghetto. Walking it after the tour, alone and slowly, is a good way to let the morning settle.