Jewish Ghetto in Krakow

Ghetto Heroes Square.

In the afternoon I explored the Jewish Ghetto. There is a public square there named Ghetto Heroes Square. It has 33 memorial chairs of iron and bronze. These chairs symbolize the tragedy of the Polish Jews. The book, The Krakow Ghetto Pharmacy is about
the one and only non-Jewish inhabitant of the Krakow Ghetto, Tadeusz Pankiewicz, who had a pharmacy within the ghetto walls. During the existence of the ghetto he and his personnel provided all kinds of help and aid for the Jews imprisoned there.

These inhabitants of Krakow were imprisoned in the Krakow Ghetto during the Second World War and the German occupation of Poland. And then afterwards losing their lives to the Germans on the premises of the ghetto and in several German death camps. My next stop was the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków which was Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory and featured in the movie Schindler's List. - Nancy

Plaque honoring Oskar Schindler

Many, many pictures about the Jewish Ghetto

Entrance to the Museum