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Dzień dobry! Shalom! Dobrý den! Tak 100 lat temu witano się na Pradze! Dziś oprócz polskiego „Cześć!” usłyszysz tu wietnamskie „Hi!”, czeczeńskie „Salam!” czy angielskie „Hello!”. Posłuchaj audioprzewodnika „Wielokulturowa Praga” (albo idź spacer z naszym audiorzewodnikiem) i sprawdź, gdzie możesz się przywitać w poszczególnych językach. Dowiedz się, w której bramie był cheder, gdzie produkowano najlepszą mąką i kto nadal korzysta z prawosławnej cerkwi. Poznaj przedwojennych żydowskich kupców i rzemieślników, Gruzinów, którzy od stu lat kręcą się po okolicy i współczesnych Wietnamczyków – niedawnych handlarzy ze Stadionu Dziesięciolecia.

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Audioprzewodniki „Miejska ścieżka” powstały w ramach projektu Stowarzyszenia „Pracownia Etnograficzna”.

During the twenty years between the world wars Warsaw experienced a shift from being a provincial Russian city to becoming a modern, fun-loving capital; a city somewhat dirty and, at times, dangerous, but full of life. In the nationwide-famous cafés people discussed poetry, the novelty of voiced movies and the latest designs of the Diamentsztejn and Kulik hat manufactures. Elegant wives of state officials strolled along the river boulevards watching the Vistula sand-diggers at work. In the working-class district of Powiśle kinds ran barefoot playing “the dime”. That whole world ceased to exist when World War II broke out. Try to find its surviving remnants.

Audioguide is available HERE.

Miejskasciezka.pl was created by „Stowarzyszenia „Pracownia Etnograficzna”/Ethnographic Laboratory Association.

Cinema built in 1936. Repertoire was mainly for women.

The Great Synagogue of Warsaw was one of the greatest buildings built in Poland in the 19th century and at the time of its opening was the largest synagogue in the world. It was located on Tłomackie street in Warsaw. Opened on 26 September 1878 in the celebration of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year), it was personally blown up by SS-Gruppenführer Jürgen Stroop on 16 May 1943, which was the last act of destruction of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw by the Germans.

Kibbutz in Warsaw.

Haynt (הײַנט – „Today“; Yidishes tageblat 1906–08) was a Yiddish daily newspaper, published in Warsaw from 1906 until 1939. Newspaper Yidishes tageblat (יידישעס טאגעבלאט) was founded in 1906 by Zionist Shmuel Yankev Yatskan, a former contributor to the Hebrew language paper Ha-Tsefirah. In 1908 Yidishes tageblat changed its name to Haynt and quickly established itself as the premier Yiddish newspaper in the Congress Poland. Practice of reprinting Yiddish fiction in serialized form, helped Haynt set new circulation records for Yiddish journalism. By 1913 newspaper reached circulation of more than 150,000. From 1908 till 1932 Haynt was a private company. In 1932 a cooperative called Alt-Nay was formed by the staff, who administered newspaper ever since.

The Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe. Located on Warsaw's Okopowa street and abutting the Powązki Cemetery at 52°14′51″N 20°58′29″E, the Jewish Cemetery was established in 1806 and occupies 33 hectares (83 acres) of land. The cemetery contains over 200,000 marked graves, as well as mass graves of victims of the Warsaw Ghetto. Many of these graves and crypts are overgrown, having been abandoned after the German invasion of Poland and subsequent Holocaust. Although the cemetery was closed down during World War II, after the war it was reopened and a small portion of it remains active, serving Warsaw's small remaining Jewish population.

Learn about pre-war Jewish merchants and craftsmen form Praga district.

Lithuanian Jews or Litvaks are Jews with roots in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: (present-day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia and the northeastern Suwałki region of Poland). The term is sometimes used to cover all Orthodox Jews who follow a "Lithuanian" (Ashkenazic and non-Hasidic) style of life and learning, whatever their ethnic background.[1] The area where Lithuanian Jews lived is often referred to as "Litwa”.

The Ghetto Heroes Monument (Polish: Pomnik Bohaterów Getta) is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 during the Second World War. It is located in the area which was formerly a part of the Warsaw Ghetto, at the spot where the first armed clash of the uprising took place.

Does the memory of the Holocaust as a crime against the Jews endanger today the majority and dominant heroico-martyrological Polish narrative of the past? Yes and no.

Gabriel Narutowicz (Polish: [ˈɡabrjɛl naruˈtɔvit͡ʂ]; 1865–1922) was a Polish professor of hydroelectric engineering at Switzerland's Zurich Polytechnic, Polish Minister of Public Works (1920–21), Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (1922), and the assassinated first president of the Second Polish Republic (1922).

Nasz Przegląd ('Our Review') was a Polish-Jewish newspaper with Zionist leanings. It was founded in 1923. Nasz Przegląd was the most well-known Polish-Jewish newspaper in interwar Poland. It was noted for its quality of writing and staunch Polish-Jewish stance. It was issued daily from Warsaw. The editorial team of Nasz Przegląd consisted of personalities that had been working with previous Polish-Jewish press outlets, Opinia Żydowska, Glos Żydowski and Dziennik Poranny. Estimates of its circulation ranged from 20,000 to 50,000. The newspaper had a significant non-Jewish readership. Nasz Przegląd staunchly claimed independence from political parties, carrying the label 'Independent Organ' in its byline. Between 1926 and 1930 Nasz Przegląd had a supplement for children, Mały Przegląd ('Little Review'). It was edited by Janusz Korczak.and appeared weekly on Fridays. Isaac Deutscher worked for the newspaper in the 1920s.

How did the everyday life look like under the Nazi occupation? What are grey plaques which you can find all over the city? What did the children see during blackouts? How much did the Christmas tree cost back in 1943? Who where Goldman sisters? Where did the uprising soldiers fight? Go for a walk around Ochota and discover it for yourself.

Kalderasze i Lowarzy. Bergitka Roma i Polska Roma – czym róznią się między sobą poszczególne grupy romskie?

The major political parties during Second Polish Republic were the National Democrats and other right-wing groups, various Peasant Parties, Christian Democrats, Polish Socialist Party, and political groups of ethnic minorities (German: German Social Democratic Party of Poland, Jewish: General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland, United Jewish Socialist Workers Party, and Ukrainian: Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance). Frequently changing governments (see Polish legislative election, 1919, Polish legislative election, 1922) and other negative publicity which the politicians received (such as accusations of corruption or 1919 Polish coup attempt), made them increasingly unpopular. Major politicians at this time included peasant activist Wincenty Witos (Prime Minister three times) and right-wing Roman Dmowski. Ethnic minorities were represented in the Sejm; e.g. in 1928–1930 there was the Ukrainian-Belarusian Club, with 26 Ukrainian and 4 Belarusian members..

Get to know the Warsaw of the 60’s, a city where socks and cucumbers drove along the streets and kittens would turn up at fajfs at the “Stodoła” club. Kids searched for treasures, teenagers dreamt of being as successful as the Beatles and adults dreamt of owning an apartment. Warsaw, however, was a capital of an Iron Curtain–separated country. Poland was isolated from the West and suffered constant shortages of different products. Almost every aspect of life also had a political dimension, according to Gomułka’s vision of a model citizen. In spite of all that, life went on, with all the everyday minor troubles. Still today, strolling around the city centre one comes across memories of those days.

Audioguide is available HERE.

Miejskasciezka.pl was created by „Stowarzyszenia „Pracownia Etnograficzna”/Ethnographic Laboratory Association.

The Umschlagplatz (German: collection point or reloading point) was the square in Warsaw under German occupation, where Jews were gathered for deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp as part of Operation Reinhard during genocides in Poland.

Ursynów is the largest housing estate in Warsaw. It was build in the 70.XX century as a result of communist housing policy. If you want to see how people familiarized these foreign blox, go for this walk.

Audioguide is available HERE.

Miejskasciezka.pl was created by „Stowarzyszenia „Pracownia Etnograficzna”/Ethnographic Laboratory Association.

Working and standing in lines, discussions and detentions, parties and searches, kids that needed to be fed and a husband absorbed in the fight with the system – this was the everyday life for women of the democratic opposition. Good organization, cooperation and mutual trust helped them to join all these elements and become active, equal members of the fight, which led to the democratic elections of 1989. Listen how they remember their everyday struggle, walk with them around Warsaw.

Audioguide is available HERE.

Miejskasciezka.pl was created by „Stowarzyszenia „Pracownia Etnograficzna”/Ethnographic Laboratory Association.

Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof (15 December 1859 – 14 April 1917) was the creator of Esperanto, the world's most successful constructed language, and a physician by profession. He grew up fascinated by the idea of a world without war, and believed that this could happen with the help of a new international auxiliary language which he first developed in 1873 while still in school