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Ghetto Heroes Square
The square of the wartime ghetto, with a memorial of empty chairs and the pharmacy whose owner helped its people.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free; paid for the pharmacy museum
- Time Needed
- 45 minutes
- Address
- Plac Bohaterów Getta, 30-547 KrakówDirections
- Getting There
- A 15-minute walk across the river from Kazimierz, or a tram to Plac Bohaterów Getta.
Why Go
In 1941 the Nazis forced the Jews of Kraków into a walled ghetto in Podgórze, and its people were deported from this square to the death camps. Seventy bronze chairs stand on it now, a memorial to the furniture left behind.
On the corner, the Eagle Pharmacy was run by Tadeusz Pankiewicz, the only Pole allowed to live in the ghetto, who hid and helped many; it's now a museum. Fragments of the ghetto wall survive on Lwowska Street.
Nearby in Kraków
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