Zamenhofa Street in 1931, in the pre-war Jewish quarter around today's museum site
The levelled area of the former ghetto after the war, looking west along Gęsia Street (now Anielewicza), beside today's museum
Construction of the first memorial to the Ghetto Heroes amid the ruins, 1946
The new Muranów estate on Zamenhofa Street and the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, 1960s
The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in 2006, before the museum was built
The POLIN museum building under construction, 2011
The POLIN museum and the back of the Ghetto Heroes Monument on the square, 2023
Before the Second World War, Muranów was the heart of Warsaw's Jewish community. During the occupation it lay within the Warsaw Ghetto, and after the Ghetto Uprising of April–May 1943 the area was systematically razed. The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes by Natan Rapoport was unveiled in 1948 amid the rubble, and the post-war Muranów housing estate was later built around it. The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, designed by Rainer Mahlamäki, opened facing the monument in 2013, with its core exhibition opening in 2014.