Egzekucja 9 XI 1943
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Ready-made walk · Warsaw

Ghosts of War: Warsaw Remembers

9 stops · ~6 hr 50 min · 12.3 km

Ghosts of War

A reflective route through memorials, surviving fragments, and museums that preserve the city’s wartime stories. It connects the Warsaw Ghetto, the Uprising, occupation terror, and the difficult memory embedded in today’s streets.

The stops, in walking order

  1. Egzekucja 9 XI 1943
    iJolanta Dyr (CC BY-SA 3.0)

    Stop 1: Egzekucja 9 XI 1943

    ~3 min here

  2. Replika samochodu pancernego "Kubuś"
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    Stop 2: Replika samochodu pancernego "Kubuś"

    ~3 min here

    Before you is the full-size reproduction of Kubuś, an improvised Polish armoured vehicle from the Warsaw Uprising.

  3. Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego
    iAdrian Grycuk (CC BY 3.0 pl)

    Stop 3: Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego

    ~1 hr here

    Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego is the Warsaw museum devoted to the uprising of nineteen forty-four.

  4. Muzeum Więzienia Pawiak
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    Stop 4: Muzeum Więzienia Pawiak

    ~1 hr here

    Muzeum Więzienia Pawiak occupies a surviving basement of the Pawiak prison complex.

  5. Kopiec Mordechaja Anielewicza
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    Stop 5: Kopiec Mordechaja Anielewicza

    ~3 min here

    Kopiec Mordechaja Anielewicza is a memorial mound raised in nineteen forty-six from the debris of houses on Miła Street, above the destroyed bunker that became a grave.

  6. Żydowski Instytut Historyczny
    iAdrian Grycuk (CC BY 3.0 pl)

    Stop 6: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny

    ~1 hr here

    The Żydowski Instytut Historyczny is the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, a Warsaw public institution devoted to the study of Jewish life and culture in Poland.

  7. Mały Powstaniec
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    Stop 7: Mały Powstaniec

    ~3 min here

    Mały Powstaniec is a memorial sculpture set against the Old Town fortifications on Podwale, honoring children and teenagers involved in the Warsaw Uprising.

  8. Nike
    iAdrian Grycuk (CC BY-SA 3.0 pl)

    Stop 8: Nike

    ~3 min here

    Before you rises Nike, the Monument to the Heroes of Warsaw.

  9. Mauzoleum Walki i Męczeństwa
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    Stop 9: Mauzoleum Walki i Męczeństwa

    ~1 hr here

    Mauzoleum Walki i Męczeństwa is a museum set within the former Gestapo headquarters at Szucha Avenue twenty-five.

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