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Like Lodz, Bialystok and Krakow, Warsaw was for centuries one of the great Jewish centres of Poland. In 1939 there were an estimated 380,000 Jews living in and around the city - one-third of the city's total population. By May 1945, around 300 were left. Most of Jewish Warsaw was destroyed after the Ghetto Uprising, to be replaced by the sprawling housing estates and tree-lined thoroughfares of the Muranow and Mirow districts, a little to the west of the city centre. However, a few traces of the Jewish presence in Warsaw do remain, along with a growing number of newly erected monuments to the notable personalities of the city's historic Jewish community. Equally important, there's a small but increasingly visible Jewish community here - well supported by its exiled diaspora. Virtually all the Jewish monuments and memorials you will find today are enclosed within the confines of the wartime ghetto area, sealed off from the city's "Aryan" population by the Nazis in November 1940. Warsaw Jews actually lived in a considerably larger part of the city before World War II. The wholesale obliteration of the area both during and after the 1943 Ghetto Uprising meant that several of the streets changed their name, course or simply disappeared altogether after the war, often making it difficult for the visitor to gain a meaningful impression of what the ghetto area once looked like
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