Le chaim! Northern District.

We invite you to a walk through a district that no longer exists.

Houses were deliberately destroyed, and the street layout changed after the war. Nalewki Street is said to be the street that is most no longer present in Warsaw.

During the walk we will cross a metaphorical gate separating two worlds. Prewar residents of the capital wrote about it. We will not talk about the Holocaust, but about life in a district dominated until 1943 by followers of Judaism.

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We will meet at the place where that metaphorical gate once stood, and then we will walk along the streets: Nalewki, Gęsia, Zamenhof to Nowolipki, Mylna, along Przejazd toward Wyjazd Street. We will also look at the outlet of Krasiczyńska Street (not the one that now runs to Targówek).

Today some streets leave no trace or only fragments remain, which we will "lift" during the walk while recalling stories connected with the residents. Did you know that the history of world cinema began on Nalewki Street, or — if that is an exaggeration — that a man considered a precursor of world cinematography was born on that street? To realize his dreams of making films he needed capital, which he obtained not by gloved means, but “on gloves”, carrying out, perhaps not a fraud, but a certain machination.

During the walk we will seek answers to, among others, these questions:

• Which intersection in prewar Warsaw was the busiest?
• Where were the best goose pipki served?
• Where was the Warsaw diamond exchange located?
• What were the egzymowane streets and what influence did they have on the settlement of Judaism followers in the northern part of the city?
• What remains of Simons Passage?
• Where did Ludwik Zamenhof live, and where did Icchok Lejb Perec walk?
• Why were David Sowa’s bookstore and his wife reluctantly visited, even though it was excellently stocked?
• Where did Jews buy tickets when they wanted to travel by train or ship, and where did they cry sincerely and bitterly?
• Where was a very unusual school of rabbis located?
• Which street earned the name 'the street of funerals'?
• Where was the entrance to the 'Scala' theatre, one of the most popular Jewish theatres in Warsaw?
• How many synagogues were there in Warsaw?
• What distinguished the newspaper 'Mały Przegląd', where was it based and who were its editors‑in‑chief?
• Who owned the 'Cravat Palace'?
• What was the name of one of the most outstanding Jewish sculptors active in interwar Warsaw, where did he live and what remains of him?
• Why could Orthodox Jews not enter the Great Synagogue?
• Where do the names 'Nowolipie' and 'Nowolipki' come from?
• What is the name of Warsaw’s most world‑famous street?
• Why was Mylna Street misleading and where can we find its trace?

The organizer is the Arktour Guide Office, registration number in the Register of Organizers and Intermediaries of Tourist Services of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship: 1923.

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