Umschlagplatz Monument
Pomnik Umschlagplatz
The assembly point where about 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto were loaded onto trains bound for Treblinka during the Second World War. Today it is a solemn white stone memorial.
In 1942 and 1943, the Nazis gathered residents of the Warsaw Ghetto at this railway freight yard and loaded them into freight cars bound for the Treblinka extermination camp. About 300,000 people were taken from here to their deaths. The monument, unveiled in 1988, is shaped like a freight car, and its white marble wall is inscribed with about 400 common Jewish names, symbolising those who were taken away. It stands at the corner of Stawki and Dzika Streets. Admission is free, it is open all day, and a visit takes about 15 to 20 minutes. It can be combined with the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Ghetto Heroes Monument, about 1.5 km away, to make a walking route through Jewish history. Take a tram to Stawki stop.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
- Warsaw Citadel
- Powązki Cemetery
- Warsaw Uprising Monument
- New Town & Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum
- Warsaw Barbican & City Walls
- Warsaw Rising Museum
- Multimedia Fountain Park