POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

This guide to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews starts with the legend behind its name, a rustling of wind that Jewish traders once heard as a Hebrew whisper to rest here, on ground that turns out to be anything but restful. It traces the site's place inside the Warsaw Ghetto, the 1943 uprising German troops crushed block by block, and the monument a sculptor raised here five years later from stone Hitler had shipped for his own victory monument. The museum itself, the guide notes, opened its doors on a deliberately chosen date.