Question about Warsaw, Poland
 

I want to learn if my memory of the site of the Warsaw ghetto is accurate. I visited Warsaw on a tour very briefly in the late 60's, and my recollection was that there was really nothing there--that it was basically a field of rubble.

I checked Wikipedia and saw that much of the city was rebuilt (without outside help) from 1950 to 1970.

Does anyone know anything about this?

inyourpocket.com/Poland/Warsaw

Not much left of the Warsaw ghetto.

When I was there in 1995, it was largely residential -- just a few monuments to, or markers of, what once had been.

Thanks for the responses.

But recently I read that there was a new Jewish Museum/Memorial opened and the ghetto was getting more distinctive information signage and such - when I was there just after the fall of Soviet influence it was like kja says - about the same year but still poignant nevertheless.

Oh yes, completely destroyed. And now Medieval looking buildings facing an open square with horse drawn carriages and all. Wonderfully restored for us to visit. I remember that there is a painting I think in an Amsterdam museum that was used as a visual guide for restoring Warsaw as it once was with its stately buildings. Anyone help here? I could track it down I guess. So today you have Old Warsaw which is actually fairly new and nearby is New Warsaw which is older.

Just to be clear -- the area that was rebuilt on the basis of historical images (like the painting Ozarksbill mentions) is the Old Town Square, not the part that was the Warsaw ghetto.

Ozarksbill, I don't recall one painting; I thought it was several Canalettos (among others).

Oh, but yes, I am referring to the rebuilt Old Town, not the ghetto.

This wasn't THE Canaletto, but his nephew Bernardo Bellotto who used the name.

http://www.zamek-krolewski.pl/en/imp...lled-Canaletto

May well be the Canalettos...but I am struggling to remember Warsaw paintings in some museum in Amsterdam or Copenhagen or elsewhere. Anyone help? Could be I'm wrong.

Maybe the Dutch Resistance Museum - about Nazi atrocities - in Amsterdam?