The streets of Jewisz Ghetto and Podgórze district still keep evidence of those terrible events. You will see a part of the undestroyed wall around the ghetto, houses where thousands of displaced Jews used to live, the pharmacy "Under the Eagle", a monument with 68 chairs in the Heroes' Square in the ghetto.
Itinerary:
Schindler's Factory- the museum presents the daily life and tragic events that took place in Krakow during World War II;
ul. Lwowska and ul. Limanowskiego – the preserved sections of the ghetto wall;
ul. Lwowska – a location of the ghetto Orphanage;
a corner of ul. Józefińska and ul. Limanowskiego – the location of offices of Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (Jewish Order Police) and the ghetto prison;
a corner of ul. Józefińska and ul. Krakusa – sewer entrance – escape routes from the ghetto;
ul. Józefińska 18 – the building of the Jewish Social Self-Help Organisation;
ul. Węgierska – Zucker Synagogue and “Optima” Factory;
Rynek Podgórski Square – Judenrat (Jewish Council) Building, Julius Madritsch’s Confectionery Factory, Roman Polanski’s family ghetto lodgings and the location of the main gate of the ghetto;
the River Vistula Embankment - Father Bernatek Footbridge and the Piłsudski Bridge – “Schindler’s List” Film Set;
ul. Józefińska 10 – the building of Arbeitsamt (Labour Office);
ul. Piwna 7a – a shelled building - the rare traces of war in Krakow;
pl. Bohaterów Getta (the Main Square of the Ghetto) – the main site of the deportation campaigns and the final liquidation of the ghetto – the Ghetto Memorial.
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