During World War II the Jewish Polish residents were forced to move to the same location, which became known as the Jewish Ghetto. Today there isn't much of the ghetto, but there are parts of the wall that seperated the city from the ghetto and we viewed two buildings that represented what the ghetto looked liked when in use. When visiting the wall you can see bricks that have been removed due to museums that have requests, one such museum is the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. It was quite eerie to be next to the wall, to think about all the people that were forced to live in such poor conditions. If you've seen the movie the Pianist (which documents a Jewish Polish musician during the war), it does a very good job of showing how they traveled between the wall and what the ghetto looked like. This part of the tour was in the car most of the time, so we also heard about how Warsaw was effected by the Nazis and how they were under the Red Regime (communism) from after World War II until 1989. Our guide shared with us that many Polish were not taught all of the correct history because of communism. It's sad to here their history, because it seems they would get rid of one problem and another would occur. |
