Treblinka Extermination Camp half-day tour from Warsaw, Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
Visit the museum and memorial of the second deadliest Nazi German extermination camp – Treblinka. On a guided tour from Warsaw, you will learn more about the fate of local Jews. First, in Warsaw, visit Janusz Korczak memorial and Umschlagplatz, where people were loaded to the trains and taken to the camp. Then, go to Treblinka, where you will visit a museum in the middle of a forest and see a massive stone memorial to all the camp’s victims.
Description & Instructions When Visiting Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
Visit the museum and memorial of the second deadliest Nazi German extermination camp – Treblinka. On a guided tour from Warsaw, you will learn more about the fate of local Jews. First, in Warsaw, visit Janusz Korczak memorial and Umschlagplatz, where people were loaded to the trains and taken to the camp. Then, go to Treblinka, where you will visit a museum in the middle of a forest and see a massive stone memorial to all the camp’s victims.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Monument to Janusz Korczak, Świętokrzyska 32, 00-901 Warszawa, Poland
The memorial to Janusz Korczak, an educator, children-author and pedagogue who went to Treblinka with his children students.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Umschlagplatz, Corner ul. Stawki and ul. Dzika, Warsaw Poland
Umschlagplatz was the train station where Warsaw Jews were selected and loaded on the trains heading to Treblinka.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Treblinka Memorial, Treblinka Poland
In the middle of the forest, visit a museum with a miniature model of the camp and watch moving testimonies of some camp survivors. Next, following the symbolic train tracks, you walk towards the impressive Treblinka memorial. Made of over 17,000 stones, the monument commemorates over 700,000 victims of the extermination camp. Learn dire stories of transportation of the European Jews to this camp and find out more about the revolt that took place in Treblinka in the summer of 1943. After the time of contemplation at the Treblinka memorial, you return to Warsaw, to the original starting point.
Duration: 2 hours
Duration: 6 hours
Starts: Warszawa, Poland
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
