The Umschlagplatz is about 15 minutes walk from the Jewish museum, follow the Path of Remembrance which is marked by 16 granite blocks.

The Umschlagplatz was a holding area set up by Nazi Germany adjacent to a railway station in occupied Poland, where the ghettoised Jews were assembled for deportation to death camps during the ghetto liquidation. The largest such collection point consisted of a city square in occupied Warsaw next to the Warsaw Ghetto, used for several months during daily deportations of 254,000 – 265,000 Warsaw Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp.