Warszawa / Śródmieście / 24 Żurawia Street

  • Tenement building at 24 Żurawia Street, 2015, photo: M. Szczepaniak, POLIN Museum

  • Tenement building at 24 Żurawia Street, view from the courtyard, 2015, photo: M. Szczepaniak, POLIN Museum

  • Entrance to the tenement building at 24 Żurawia Street, 2015, photo: M. Szczepaniak, POLIN Museum

  • Memorial plaque on the façade of the tenement building at 24 Żurawia Street, 2015, photo: M. Szczepaniak, POLIN Museum

  • Eugenia Wąsowska-Leszczyńska, photo: Jewish Historical Institute

  • Władysław Bartoszewski, a member of the "Żegota" Council for Aid to Jews, photo: family archive, POLIN Museum

  • Zofia Kossak, one of the prime movers behind establishing "Żegota" Council for Aid to Jews, photo: Fundacja im. Zofii Kossak

  • False kenkarte of Leon Feiner, in the years 1944-1945 chairman of the "Żegota" Council for Aid to Jews, photo: POLIN Museum, donated by Władysław Bartoszewski

  • "Żegota" monument in Warsaw, Zamenhofa Street, photo: J. Król, POLIN Museum

Eugenia Wąsowska-Leszczyńska

“The ultimate meeting of Jewish underground organizations took place at my apartment on 1 August 1944”, Eugenia Wąsowska-Leszczyńska wrote in her account. “The Warsaw Uprising broke out during the meeting”.

Apartment no. 4 at 24 Żurawia Street was a hub of underground activity since August 1942, when Eugenia Wąsowska-Leszczyńska accepted the request of Alliance of Democrats members and allowed Żegota Council to Aid Jews to use her apartment.

Representatives of Polish and Jewish organizations associated in Żegota used to meet there. The apartment was a contact point for activists of the Bund leftist party and the Jewish Combat Organization, location of fighters’ training, arms store, money transfer point for the Jewish National Committee and, finally, a secret archive.

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