Schindler's Factory and Jewish Ghetto - Small Group Walking Tour

Informazioni generali

Destinazione
Cracovia, Polonia

Il programma nel dettaglio

Visit one of the most important and popular museums in Krakow. Schindler's Enamel Factory, located at ul. Lipowa 4, is part of the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow. The main exhibition title is "Krakow Under Nazi Occupation 1939-1945". Please note that this is not a biographical museum. The museum exhibition is devoted to occupied Krakow and shows many aspects of people's life under the Nazi rule. We invite you to take part in a tour with a professional guide around this unique place.



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.



You will learn facts from the history of World War II through their impact on the everyday life of ordinary people in multicultural Krakow. - You will see the real headquarters of Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik and hear about its owner, Oskar Schindler - an entrepreneur, known from the Oscar-winning Spielberg film, who saved many of his employees from inevitable death. - The heroic deed of Oskar Schindler resembles his office, happily preserved in the factory administration building, which houses a symbolic ""ark of survivors"" made of thousands of pots, like those made by his employees during the war. - Thanks to the modern multimedia installation, you will walk along the cobbled streets of the city, enter the photographer's atelier, look at the hairdresser, get on the tram, as well as see a typical apartment in the Jewish ghetto, and then find yourself with its inhabitants in the Płaszów camp. - On the ""memory machine"" (stamping machine) you will make a stamp related to one of the important events in the history of occupied Krakow, taking the ""time document"" with you. - At the end you will see the punch line of the exhibition - a sculptural installation - ""Hall of Choising"" - a symbol of military dilemmas and ethical attitudes.



At the fragment of the walls that once surrounded the ghetto, we will learn a brief historical outline of the uprising, the history of this place and its topography. - The central point of the trip - the Ghetto Heroes Square, which was the center of life in the so-called Jewish Housing District. Where the Kraków Jews lived in crowds during the war, there were assemblies and deportations to camps, today a monument commemorating the victims of the Holocaust was established in the form of dozens of sculptures in the form of chairs. We will learn about their meaningful symbolism and then we will go to the seat of the Eagle Pharmacy, the owner of which, Tadeusz Pankiewicz, during the occupation helped Jews in various ways. - While standing in an authentically historical place, listen to the stories about the everyday heroism of ordinary people in tragic circumstances. Pay a silent tribute to the helpless victims and heroes of the war.