Warsaw Ghetto...

We took an excellent walking tour of what once was the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Europe during WWII with over 400,000 people imprisoned there. These sidewalk signs designate where the ghetto once stood.

The Warsaw Ghetto was burned down by the Nazis in May 1943 after a Jewish uprising. A few of the original buildings from the small ghetto are still standing.

Most of the remaining buildings are falling apart so there are protective wiring to catch falling bricks. Some are still occupied...

...and some aren’t.

This sculpture and its twin across the street stand as a reminder of the staircase that once existed to march Jews up and over the road between the walls of the small and large ghettos.

The tour guide showed us a similar photo to this one that I found on Wikipedia.

This building, which was outside the ghettos, is the same one seen in the background of the above photo.

St. Augustine Church, built in 1896, was one of the only surviving buildings within the large ghetto. Only 1 of the city’s 300 synagogues survived the war.