Theatre
Five theatres operated in the Warsaw Ghetto: Eldorado on Dzielna 1 street, Teatr na Pięterku by Nowolipki 29 street, Teatr Nowy Azazel (New Azazel) by Nowolipie 72 street, Teatr Femina on Leszno 35 street), Nowy Teatr Kameralny on. Nowolipki 52 street and the Melody Palace by Rymarskiej 12. Three of the venues staged performances in Yiddish, and two hosted showings in Polish. Most of the performing actors were amateurs. Over the course of 20 months of their functioning in the ghetto, the theatres produced 68 premieres. The repertoire was mostly light and humorous.
In their book Getto warszawskie. Przewodnik po nieistniejącycm mieście (The Warsaw Ghetto. A Guide to a Non-Existent City), Leociak and Engelking underscore the significance that cherishing cultural habits had for the dwellers of the ghetto. What was normal before the war became a sign of disapproval and resistance to the nazi world order.
Painters and illustrators
Journalists, writers, and also visual artists suffered a very difficult fate in the ghetto. Deprived of any possibilities of earning a living, with no studios and lacking materials to work with, they barely managed to survive. There were painters who found employment in the former sculpting atelier of Abraham Ostrzega and Władysław Weintraub by Mylna 9a street, which was transformed into a factory of knife-sharpening stone. The employees of the factory included Henryk Rabinowicz, Symcha Trachter, Roman Rozental, Samuel Finkelstein, Hersz Cyna, Tadeusz Trębacz, Maksymilian Eljowicz, Izrael Tykociński, and Józef (Jasza) Śliwniak.
A so-called artistic farm was founded by Orla 6 street, where painters, sculptors, journalists and writers were not only offered a modest meal, but also had the chance to meet with colleagues, talk, and listen to concerts and poetry readings. A small room was also set up in the space, allowing some of the artists to paint in peace.
The majority of paintings created in the ghetto were completely destroyed. Only the works by Gela Seksztajn, a young painter and teacher of drawing in Jewish schools are a case apart. She hid more than 300 works in secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, the so-called Ringelblum Archive. There are also the sketch portraits of starving children created by Lewinson, who was most likely a school teacher in drawing before the war. It is also probable that the painting of life in a bunker by Maurycy Rynecki (currently at the Yad Vashem World Centre for Holocaust Research) was created at the time or after the Grossaktion. The drawings of a famous painter, Roman Kramsztyk which were secretly transported out of the ghetto also survived, along with 5 drawings by an unknown Rozenfeld, which were exhibited in 2012 at the Kordegarda gallery in Warsaw.