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List of TR's:
CGR

Kosher Food/ Restaurants:
WARSAW:
Kosher Delight - http://www.kosherdelightpoland.com
Grzybowska 2, Warszawa, Poland - 1st floor.

Galil Restaurant - http://www.galil-restaurant.pl/
Zielna 37, 00-108 Warszawa, Poland

Taim - Offers catering, for 6 or more people according to it's website: http://koshercateringtaim.com.pl/o-nas/?lang=en

Shabbos
Chabad in warsaw offer shabbos meals by night and day - reservations in advance required and they have a suggested donation of $18 per person per meal.
Donate - http://www.chabad.org.pl/component/content/article/75-chabad-lubawicz/458-wsparcie

LODZ
Kosher Delight - http://www.kosherdelightpoland.com

KRAKOW
Kosher Delight - http://www.kosherdelightpoland.com

Synagogue:
WARSAW:
Noyzyk Shul English Website: http://warszawa.jewish.org.pl/en/nozyk-synagogue
Twarda 6, 00-001 Warszawa, Poland

Chabad Shul - English Website: http://www.chabad.org.pl/component/content/article/114-nieprzypisana/469-english
Zygmunta Słomińskiego 19, 00-001 Warszawa, Poland

Things to Do:
WARSAW:
You can visit The Noyzyk Shul:
•    from Monday to Friday at: 9.00 AM – 7.00 PM,
•    Sunday at 11.00 AM – 7.00 PM.
The cost of admission is 10 PLN.

Kevarim
Jewish cemetery near the Old Powazki. Established in 1809, it is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in the world. Spread over an area of nearly 44,000 square feet (3160 square meters), the cemetery was left largely intact by the Nazis and includes the graves and tombs of a quarter of a million people, including the great Rabbanim of Warsaw as well as many secular giants in literature and the arts.

The Jewish Ghetto
The infamous Warsaw Ghetto, the scene of the only organized uprising.
On the left side of the Praga River, where the Ghetto used to be, you can visit several monuments commemorating the Jews of Warsaw, including the Monument over the Ghetto Heroes at Zamenhof Square, and Umschlagplatz, a memorial raised at the very spot where Warsaw Jews were gathered in 1943, loaded on cattle wagons and transported to the death camp at Treblinka. It is still possible to see how Jews lived in Warsaw ulica Prozna, a street left largely intact from before the Holocaust.

Hotels:
WARSAW:
Intercontinental - 5 min walk from the Noyzyk Shul

Getting Around:

Notes:


Helpful map of Kevorim and phone numbers

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&mid=zhZzyXUv-dV0.kYv6ziQDH_n8

Polish Kosher Food List https://www.koszernapolska.pl/
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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #40 on: September 23, 2011, 10:34:12 AM »
i was there once and used a guide. it was an israeli guy who was hanging around the chabad house

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #41 on: September 23, 2011, 01:14:46 PM »
the warsaw ghetto,obviously
really, there's not much more then a monument definitely no getto left

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #42 on: September 23, 2011, 01:22:25 PM »
biggest cemetery in poland in warsaw,if your into that. gur is less than an hour away, the warsaw ghetto,obviously :) any questions let me know, been there a few times although never used a guide
not necessarily "into that" but I would defiantly want to go to the nitziv and R'chaim's kvorim.. I understand beside for memorials there is not much that wasn't completely destroyed in warsaw... Is lublin worth going too?

why not auschwitz?

I'm think about going its ~ 4 train ride from what I understand..

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #43 on: September 24, 2011, 03:31:16 PM »
With the little left of the ghetto, if you followed the subject, you would be happy that you went to check it out (I was).

I walked mostly, also to the cemetery.

As this cemetery was a bit out, I returned by bus.

I also went to see remainders of the ghetto walls that are scattered a bit everywhere, as well as korcaks orphanage, which is turned into a kind of school.

The door was open, so I just walked in, and whoever asked what I was doing there, I just mumbled something in a made up language, and continued walking.

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #44 on: September 25, 2011, 12:43:42 AM »

 lublin has 2 cemeteries,old and new,old is buried the chozeh melublin, i believe the marshal,rav shalom shachna(rema's rebbe)amongst others,the new cemetery was plowed by the germans ym's however in the back left corner a tzion was erected over rav tzadok and rav leibel eiger's keveraim. if i remember correctly the yeshivas chachmei lublin was restored and it a nice tourist attraction

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #45 on: September 25, 2011, 02:05:37 AM »
if your going to lublin, then maijdanek and izbitz are not that far away. buy a map of jewish poland in a jewish gift shop in poland and pick where to go.

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #46 on: October 24, 2011, 04:50:45 PM »
not necessarily "into that" but I would defiantly want to go to the nitziv and R'chaim's kvorim.. I understand beside for memorials there is not much that wasn't completely destroyed in warsaw... Is lublin worth going too?

I'm think about going its ~ 4 train ride from what I understand..
there isnt to much going on in trebilinka . the nazis destroyed the camp , altough they did make it into an "attraction " . when are you going ?
be smart and don't mess things up please

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #47 on: October 24, 2011, 04:55:07 PM »
actually in poland right now spent the day in and around warsaw there was enough to keep me busy. the train to aushwitz would have taken something like 6 hours in each direction so just stuck around warsaw.. will try to post trip report soon.

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #48 on: December 12, 2011, 04:53:56 PM »
actually in poland right now spent the day in and around warsaw there was enough to keep me busy. the train to aushwitz would have taken something like 6 hours in each direction so just stuck around warsaw.. will try to post trip report soon.

Can you post it?

I have a 14 hour layover in Warsaw...any tips...things to do...drivers..who can show us around?

TIA

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #49 on: December 12, 2011, 04:59:46 PM »
Can you post it?

I have a 14 hour layover in Warsaw...any tips...things to do...drivers..who can show us around?

TIA
when are you gonna be there?
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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #50 on: December 12, 2011, 05:10:26 PM »
when are you gonna be there?

late january iyh

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #51 on: December 12, 2011, 05:17:27 PM »
Can you post it?

I have a 14 hour layover in Warsaw...any tips...things to do...drivers..who can show us around?

TIA
E still owes us an NRT trip report...
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #52 on: December 12, 2011, 05:22:37 PM »
E still owes us an NRT trip report...

Have you ever been in Warsaw?

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #53 on: December 12, 2011, 05:22:54 PM »
Have you ever been in Warsaw?
Nope.
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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #54 on: December 12, 2011, 05:37:11 PM »
Nope.

I sent the Rabbi an email asking for a driver who can give a tour...will post when I get it...

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #55 on: December 12, 2011, 06:13:44 PM »
I sent the Rabbi an email asking for a driver who can give a tour...will post when I get it...
look on chabad website I recall seeing a few numbers.. when I get a chance I will post a TR

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #56 on: December 12, 2011, 08:18:47 PM »
u can speak to david singer at focus camera in boro park he travels there regularly and gave some good info (drivers etc.)

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #57 on: December 13, 2011, 02:03:22 AM »
when i was there, i went to the chabad house where an israeli guy hangs out, and he guided me for the day. taxi for the day was $40

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #58 on: December 13, 2011, 03:07:36 AM »
I saw it all in one day, without driver or taxi.

If you are going with kids or so, I'd go for a driver, and $40 for a day seems an excellent deal.

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Re: Poland Master Thread
« Reply #59 on: December 13, 2011, 11:25:01 AM »
when i was there, i went to the chabad house where an israeli guy hangs out, and he guided me for the day. taxi for the day was $40

Really, that's all? Do you remember his name? I was thinking it would be 5 times that...is Poland/Warsaw still a cheap place to get around?