Jewish Cultural Institutions and Landmarks in Warsaw

Warsaw Jewish Community Center (JCC) offers various programs from meetings with memory keepers to culinary masterclasses. They also host kosher meals on Mondays, Fridays, and Sundays.

The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is one of the world’s most ambitious Jewish history museum, dedicated to preserving and presenting the 1,000-year history of Jewish presence in Poland and to promote tolerance, understanding, and mutual respect.

Memorial Route of Jewish Martyrdom and Struggle in Warsaw is a series of monuments in central Warsaw, near the POLIN Museum, that document Jewish history and especially the Warsaw Uprising.

Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw is a museum that doubles as an educational and research center in Warsaw. The preserve the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, support genealogical research, publish scholarly works, display Jewish art, and develop IT tools to improve future research, to name a few of their activities.

Bródno Jewish Cemetery is the oldest of all Jewish cemeteries in Warsaw. Originally opened in 1780, it was the main cemetery for Jews in Warsaw until WWII. It was devastated by the Nazis and later the Communists. Various efforts have been made to restore it and, although progress has been made, the cemetery is largely in ruins, but is also a fascinating historical site.

The Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery still contains over 150,000 of the original 250,000 marked graves (in addition to mass graves). It is also largely in utter disrepair, but a valuable historical site and one the that local Jewish community has been trying to restore for years.