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| photo by warsawtaxi.pl | photo by warsawtaxi.pl | photo by warsawtaxi.pl |
Warsaw. Prozna Street - was once part of the Warsaw Ghetto. This is the only street in Jewish Warsaw where the buildings have been preserved on both sides of the street. |
Deathcamp Treblinka (100 km from Warsaw). The first transport with the deportees from the Warsaw Ghetto arrived at the camp on 23 July 1942. Since that day Jews from occupied Poland and other destinations such as Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, Germany and Austria were transported to the camp. More than 900,000 people are estimated to have been killed here. |
Tykocin's seventeenth century synagogue (170 km from Warsaw) is one of the most beautiful works of Jewish sacral architecture in Poland. A museum of Judaica is currently housed there. During the interwar period approximately 1,500 Jews lived in Tykocin, (50% of the total population). |