WINTER EXPERIENCE
Krakow: Jewish Ghetto Guided Tour
Discover one of Kraków’s most powerful historical sites — the former Jewish Ghetto in Podgórze. Follow your licensed guide through streets that witnessed both tragedy and heroism. Learn about the people who lived, struggled, and resisted during the darkest chapter of the city’s history.
Highlights:
• Visit the remains of the original Ghetto Wall
• Explore Ghetto Heroes Square and the symbolic Chair Memorial
• Hear stories of bravery at the Under the Eagle Pharmacy
• See authentic wartime buildings and street layouts
• Learn about daily life, deportations, and survival during WWII
This walking tour offers a respectful and moving look into Kraków’s wartime past. With your expert guide, you’ll explore authentic sites that still bear witness to human endurance and compassion amid tragedy — a meaningful experience for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the city’s history.
Itinerary
Ghetto Walls / 20 min / Admission Ticket Free
The first stop on the walking tour is the remains of the Ghetto Walls — a stark reminder of the confinement that once separated residents from the rest of the city.
Ghetto Heroes Square / 20 min / Admission Ticket Free
Next, continue to Ghetto Heroes Square, the heart of the ghetto, where deportations to extermination camps took place. Today, the square is marked by the symbolic Chair Memorial, with each chair representing a life lost.
Eagle Pharmacy / 20 min / Admission Ticket Not Included
Across the square stands the Under the Eagle Pharmacy, where Tadeusz Pankiewicz and his staff courageously aided ghetto residents, preserving medicine and hope.
Meeting point: Lipowa 4, 32-051 Krakow, Poland. Meet your guide in front of the main entrance to the Schindler’s Factory Museum, on the right-hand side. They will hold an excursions.city sign.
End point: Apteka pod Orlem, Plac Bohaterow Getta 18, 33-332 Kraków, Poland
ENG Contact Number: +48 727 001 040
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Krakow: Plaszow Concentration Camp Guided Walking Tour
Unlike sites filled with preserved buildings, Plaszow offers open ground, silence, and space for thought. With few physical remains, it is a place of memory rather than spectacle — an intimate setting to confront history, honor the victims, and reflect.
Highlights:
• Take a comprehensive tour of the Plaszow Concentration Camp
• Remember the victims of the Holocaust at the camp's memorials
• Learn about the life of Oskar Schindler and the filming of Schindler’s List
• Route paced for reflection, not rush
Itinerary
Ghetto Heroes Square / 15 min / Walk-by
Known then as Plac Zgody, this square was the logistical heart of the Kraków Ghetto: control, registry, and departure point for transports. After the war, it was renamed Ghetto Heroes Square in remembrance.
Plaszow Camp / 1h 45min / Entry Ticket Free
Plaszow Camp was established by Nazi German occupiers in October 1942 on the grounds of two Jewish cemeteries in Kraków. It began as a forced-labor camp for Jews from the liquidated Kraków Ghetto; from July 1943 it also held Poles in a penal-labor section. In January 1944 it was redesignated as a concentration camp and later functioned as a transit camp for Hungarian Jews being sent to Auschwitz. Over its existence, more than 35,000 people were imprisoned here and around 6,000 were murdered. Executions took place at several sites within the camp; today, mass graves and memorials mark the landscape.
On this guided walk, your expert guide will piece together the camp from what remains: the Grey House, the ruins of the pre-burial hall, traces of the Jewish cemeteries, the roll-call square, and paths where fragments of gravestones were once used to pave roads. You will reflect at major memorials, including the Monument of Torn-Out Hearts, and learn how the camp was organized into living, hospital, administrative, and industrial sections.
An essential part of Plaszow’s story is Oskar Schindler. Through his enamelware enterprise, he sought work permits for Jewish prisoners registered through Plaszow, shielding them from further transports. Later, he organized their transfer to his wartime plant in Brünnlitz, saving over a thousand lives. His actions, remembered worldwide, are inseparable from the history told here.
Endpoint: Henryka Kamieńskiego 57, 30-644 Kraków, Poland
ENG Contact Number: +48 727 001 040
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