The museum is very popular among tourists. First of all because the tragic events that took place in Krakow during the Second World War are shown in Stephen Spielberg's oscar-winning film "Schindler's List". The museum's atypical and modern exhibition will leave no one indifferent. Learn the story of a German entrepreneur who led many Jews through the war.
Also, the streets of Jewisz Ghetto, Podgórze, 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:
The Schindler’s Factory Museum (guided tour)
Short break
ul. Lwowska and ul. Limanowskiego – the preserved sections of the former 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
pl. Bohaterów Getta – the Ghetto Pharmacy of Tadeusz Pankiewicz, a contact point of the Jewish Fighting Organisation.
Meeting point: ul. Lipowa 4 in front of the main entrance (click to go to the Google maps)
The guide with the "excursions.city" sign.
End point: Plac Bohaterów Getta (click to go to Google maps)
Length: ~2 km
Duration: 3 hours
The tour starts at
