The only street in Warsaw, where a bilateral piece of architecture has survived the Ghetto extermination. Nowadays it was transformed into a promenade. Since 2004, a Festival of Jewish Culture - "Singer's Warsaw" - is being held there.
The name Próżna (Vain) is associated with the undeveloped areas, that it was crossing. Buildings emerged here only in 1770 (before it carried a name Ogrodowa). In a tenement house by the street Próżna 10, was a seat of the society called International Bell Telephone. In the end of nineteenth century, most of its inhabitants were Jewish. Próżna was a big trade center. In September 1939, some of its buildings were burned. In 1940, western part of the street between Zielna and Grzybowski Square was incorporated into ghetto. During the Warsaw Uprising they built a barricade on Próżna street.
Próżna street was renovated in 2014. A granite pavement was laid, a facade of an ancient tenement house nr 12 was reconstructed and lanterns "pastorals" were set.
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