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Warsaw for WWII Buffs - private tour with hotel pickup

By Warsaw Behind the Scenes
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Price is $293 per adult* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
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  • 3h
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  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview

Discover the traces of WWII in Warsaw on this 3 hours private tour. Ride the retro minibus and find out more about the international situation on the eve of war, the invasion of Poland, the birth of local resistance, the 1943 Ghetto Uprising, the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and the arrival of the Soviet army.

This tour is a choice for those primarily interested in the history of World War II. You'll learn about the battles, heroes and everyday life in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation, the political situation in the region that has changed diametrically throughout coupe years of WWII and the consequences that war has brought to Poland and Europe. Find buildings that may be considered war memorials due to the bullet holes and ricochets, pieces of the Jewish Ghetto wall and hidden hills of rubble. Travel through time thanks to stories you'll hear, combined with archival photographs and our Zuk retro vintage minibus.

Activity location

  • Warsaw
    • Warsaw, Poland, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Warsaw
    • Warsaw, Poland, Poland

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3 hours private tour
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English

Language: English
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
$292.95 x 1 Adult$292.95
Total
Price is $292.95

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedProfessional English speaking local guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedTransport by retro communist minibus
  • What's includedWhat's includedHotel / apartment Pickup and drop-off within 3 km radius of city center
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTip or gratuity

Know before you book

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Car is used mainly for transfers between locations where guests walk with their guide.
  • This tour can be booked instantly online for adults and children over 150 centimetres (4,9 ft). However, if you want to book a tour for a shorter child, please contact the tour operator to check the availability of seat boosters, which are obligatory in Poland.
  • Classic vintage minibuses are not equipped with air conditioning, and some are not equipped with seat belts (which is legal with classic vintage cars). However, they have a heating system for the winter.
  • The capacity of one minibus is 8 passengers. 5 minibuses are available.

Activity itinerary

Warsaw
  • 20m
Tour’s schedule is organised in chronological order. The first part is looking for witnesses of the war in downtown Warsaw. The wounds are still visible - you just need to know where to look for them. Next, the guide introduces you to the international situation in the late 1930s and the WWII outbreak in 1939. It was the time of shock caused by nazi and communist (the Soviet Union captured eastern Poland) terror and the birth of Polish resistance.
Fragment of Ghetto Wall
  • 25m
The crucial part of WWII history in Poland is the tragedy of Jewish citizens who were oppressed and murdered by German Nazis. Poland was home to 3 million Jews, 300 000 of them lived in Warsaw. In 1940 German Nazis created Warsaw Ghetto and squeezed half a million Jews into it. A few fragments of the Ghetto Wall running between the properties are preserved, as well as the walls of the pre-war buildings that marked the border of the ghetto. The three best-known parts of the wall are located in the former small ghetto, although some are periodically not accessible: the guide takes you to one of them.
Waliców
  • 10m
The Waliców street tenement house is, as we say, the last ghost from the Ghetto since it remains a ruin up to now. Also - there is a fragment of the Ghetto wall preserved in the same place.
Chlodna Street
  • 10m
In 1941 Ghetto was divided into two parts by Chłodna street, used for East-West transfer traffic. The wooden bridge was built near the intersection of Chłodna and Żelazna streets to link two parts. It reached the third floor of the buildings, which allowed the “Aryan” trams, German military transports and cars to pass beneath it, as we can see in many photographs.
Muranów
  • 10m
The next stop is the Muranów district. Again, the first impression is that it is just a regular neighbourhood filled with squared blocks of flats. But there is much more from the past to be discovered with the help of a guide.
Pomnik Bohaterow Getta
  • 20m
The monument of the Ghetto Heroes and Polin museum are two symbolic and essential places where your guide takes you. Both are located near the spot where the first armed clash of the 1943 uprising took place. Yet, at the same time, it is where Polish, Jewish and German nations reconciled through several events throughout the last 50 years.
Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East
  • 10m
On September 17th 1939, two weeks after the outbreak of WWII in Europe, Poland was attacked by the Soviet Union, and the Eastern part of our country was lost forever. After the fall of the USSR, the Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East was erected in honour of Poles deported to Gulags in Siberia, killed in executions and the victims of the Katyń massacres.
Warsaw Uprising Monument
  • 10m
Later in World War II, an agreement was reached between the Western Allies and the dictator of the USSR, Stalin; as a result, post-war Poland was about to become a country subordinate to the Soviet Union. The last attempt to avoid this fate was the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, which resulted in the Nazis destroying 85% of Warsaw. Red Army captured the empty city three months after the fall of the insurrection, in January 1945.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESWarsaw
    • Warsaw, Poland, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEWarsaw
    • Warsaw, Poland, Poland

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