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History & Heritage Guides
39 guides
Twentieth-century history is written into Polish cities: the first shots of the Second World War at Westerplatte, the ruins and rebuilding of Warsaw, the Łódź ghetto, the Gdańsk shipyard where Solidarity began.
These guides describe the sites, museums and memorials a visitor can see, with dates and facts from museum and memorial sources.
Poland
- Jewish Heritage in Poland: City-by-City Guide
- WW2 Sites in Poland: Where to Go and What to Expect
- Gdańsk History: The Periods That Shaped the City
- Gdańsk WW2 Sites: Museum of the Second World War & Westerplatte
- Jewish Gdańsk: What You Can Still See and Where
- Katowice Ghetto: What Happened and What You Can Visit
- Katowice History: What Shaped the City and Where to See It
- Katowice WW2: Sites, Memorials and Museums That Tell the Story
- Łódź Ghetto: What Happened and What Visitors Can See Today
- Łódź History: What Shaped the City and Where to See It
- Łódź WW2 Sites: Ghetto, Cemeteries and Memorials to Visit
- Communist Poland: Where to See the PRL Era on a City Break
- Communist Tour Warsaw: Which Tour Fits and What You'll See
- Gdańsk Shipyard: Solidarity History and the Post-Industrial Młode Miasto
- Jewish Cemetery Warsaw: Okopowa Street Visitor Guide
- Jewish Tour Poland: Planning a Heritage Route Beyond Kraków
- Majdanek: Visiting the Former Camp and State Museum in Lublin
- PRL Museum in Warsaw: What You'll See at the Museum of Life in the PRL
- Project Riese: Visiting the Owl Mountains Tunnels
- Stutthof: Visiting the Former Camp Near Gdańsk
- Synagogues in Poland You Can Visit: Warsaw, Wrocław and More
- The Solidarity Movement in Gdańsk: What to See and What Happened
- Tykocin Synagogue: Visiting the Great Synagogue
- Warsaw Ghetto Wall: Where the Surviving Fragments Are
- Warsaw Uprising 1944: What Happened and Where to Remember It
- White Stork Synagogue, Wrocław: Visiting Guide
- Wolf's Lair (Wilczy Szaniec): What Remains and How to Visit
- Poznań Ghetto: What Happened and What You Can Visit
- Poznań WW2 Sites: What to See and How to Visit
- Szczecin History: The Periods That Shaped the City
- Szczecin WW2 Sites: What Happened and How to Visit
- Chopin in Warsaw: Museum, Heart and Łazienki Concerts
- Warsaw Ghetto: What to See and How to Visit the Site Today
- Warsaw History: What Shaped the City and Where to See It
- Warsaw WW2 Sites: Museums, Memorials and What Happened
- Jewish Wrocław: Synagogue, Cemetery and Heritage Sites
- Wrocław History: The Periods That Shaped the City
- Wrocław WW2 Sites: What Happened Here and How to Visit
- Zakopane History: The Story Behind the Town in 5 Periods