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.

http://forward.com/articles/208070/s...-in-war/?p=all

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?