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Hola, soy Mary, guía turística profesional especializada en historia de las ideologías, la Europa de los siglos XIX y XX y ciencias políticas. Llevo cuatro años viviendo en Berlín, donde adquirí mi primera experiencia como guía turística trabajando para la empresa líder en el mercado comercial. Crecí en Varsovia, donde mis raíces judías/polacas y la experiencia familiar me impulsaron a interesarme profundamente por la historia europea. Estudié en el Collegium MISH de la Universidad de Varsovia, que permite a estudiantes con amplios intereses académicos combinar clases de todas las facultades en un programa individual e interdisciplinario. Tuve la suerte de aprender de algunos de los mejores historiadores, sociólogos y otros autores contemporáneos, lo que me proporcionó un alto nivel de comprensión de la historia moderna y una sólida capacidad para analizar sus consecuencias. Posteriormente, trabajando como enlace con periodistas, pude intercambiar experiencias con periodistas de todo el mundo y de diversos contextos culturales, y practicar la explicación de temas sociohistóricos complejos de forma accesible pero exhaustiva. En un mundo con tanta tensión política, decidí dedicar mi vida a transmitir la mayor cantidad posible de estos conocimientos. Ahora ofrezco mis tours independientes intentando contrarrestar la tendencia actual de maximizar las ganancias sacrificando la precisión histórica. Tras la desregulación de la profesión, se convirtió en norma promocionar narrativas problemáticas o incluso engañosas como si representaran la más alta calidad académica. Es fácil explotar el hecho de que los invitados, que casi nunca son historiadores de formación, simplemente "no saben lo que no saben". Mi objetivo es combinar mi formación, mi experiencia profesional y familiar para ofrecer una explicación comprensible incluso de los procesos y fenómenos más complejos que moldearon a Alemania y al mundo tal como es hoy. Espero que me acompañen y disfruten de una experiencia no solo entretenida, sino también realmente valiosa en mi tour.
I feel incredibly lucky to be one of first guests on this wonderful tour. Magda has extensive knowledge and a degree on the subject, her English is excellent and easy to understand. The tour is very thoroughly researched and visibly took many months of preparation, the photos and materials she prepared are diverse and really unique. The true highlight (and something incredibly rare) is guides connection to the subject. Her family was one of very few who decided to save a Jewish person, there are only 7k polish Righteous Among the Nations. It felt like a real privilege to be guided through the getto by someone so personally connected and truly caring about this place and part of history. I don’t live in Poland any more, but I’m polish/jewish, visiting Warsaw I saw all available Jewish history tours and I so far I was horrified each time. Guides had very limited knowledge or even interest in the subject and skipped difficult subjects like current polish antisemitism or manipulated important narratives. Each time it felt completely artificial and I asked if they even know one Jewish person in Warsaw - never got confirming response. There are so few Jews in Poland right now and so hard to hear an authentic voice. You won’t find a better tour about Jewish history in Warsaw than this one.
Horrible experience. I took this tour 1y ago. For me, being Polish-Jewish, the tour is antisemitic and spreads misconceptions. The guide Andrzej couldn’t answer questions and was giving wrong data. He was trying very hard to make many jokes, not on the subject and completely distasteful. I payed for the tour and at the end and gave the guide Andrzej a lot of sources and advice how to improve. I left no review. Today I took the tour again and close to nothing changed. The guide this time added 2 sentences about polish antisemitism, still with wrong data, poor sense of humor, refusing to answer simple questions for example about historical reasons for antisemitism in Poland. He directly refused to share his sources when I asked what literature is he using. The guide has no connection on this subject, it’s just a source of income for him, because there’s a huge demand for teaching about Jews in Poland and almost no Jewish people around to reclaim their voice.
It was a really great experience and Nana is a lovely person. As a guide myself I really appreciated that she didn’t adjust her content to please foreigners but painted honest and nuanced picture of history and culture of Vietnam. I’ve found it really interesting to hear about communism from a different than tired and often one sided european/US perspective. Nana had an injutry last year and has a bit of difficulty with walking but she was still very professional, skilled and we moved around with no issue. I think the fact she’s still guiding after her accident only shows how she cares about and loves her job and her city. Apart from monumentu and a local museum we had some snacks and drinks and saw couple hidden corners and local communities. We had some delay but a good, authentic walking tour can’t be 100% precisely scheduled and I appreciate Nana had a lot of time for us. At the end we also recieved some great recommendations. I can recommend this tour 100%! Happy new year and all the best to you Nana:)