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Hello, my name is Magda. I am a Polish-Jewish tour guide in Warsaw. I graduated Hebrew Studies from Warsaw University and have experience researching and presenting Polish-Jewish history.
My approach is shaped by my academic training, work in education and publishing, and a dedication to responsible storytelling. With roots in both the Jewish and Polish experience, my goal is to offer guests an accurate perspective on the history and culture of Warsaw’s Jewish community.
My family history is deeply connected with Jewish Warsaw. My grandmother was born during the war in the Warsaw Ghetto and survived the Holocaust, raised by a Catholic family. Learning about our Jewish roots influenced me to explore my identity, study Europe’s complex history, and engage with the relationship between Poles and Jews, past and present.
As one of just a handful of Polish Jews currently living in Warsaw, I aim to offer my guests an authentic voice. I invite you not just to visit sites, but to ask questions, take part in discussions, and reflect together.
I created my tour to share family stories and address concerns about the commercialization of history and declining tourism standards. Low-quality or problematic narratives have appeared, and historians encourage educators to take responsibility in teaching about antisemitism, fascism, and threats to democracy. In a profession dependent on client satisfaction, there’s pressure to tell visitors only what they want to hear.
Too often, Jewish voices are erased or history is told only from the Polish perspective. My goal is to share a fuller, honest story, even if it means facing difficult topics.
Although I was the only booking for the day’s tour, Magda gladly carried it out anyway. It was marvelous… a lot of info that cannot be find on the internet, the perspective of someone who knows about the subject, I asked as many questions as I had and all of them were answered with patience . The most recommended tour in the whole Warschau 🙏🏼
There were no other guests, so we had a great private tour with Magda. She was very open, interested, informed and answered all our questions. The history of the Ghetto was contextualised well and shown by many different places. It was special for us to hear a contemporary Jewish Polish perspective. Thank you very much!
The tour of Magda was the perfect mixture of information and sensitivity. She showed us traces of Jewish life in Warsaw that appear hard to see otherwise. She told us about her personal story and how it is intertwined with polish-jewish history. It was very engaging. I would highly recommend it!
