The Kraków Ghetto was one of 5 major, metropolitan Jewish Ghettos created by Nazi Germany in the new General Government territory during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
Kraków ghetto was officially established on 20 March 1941 and was set up in the Podgórze District of Kraków , which was a suburb of Kraków at the time.
It was established for the purpose of exploitation, terror, and persecution of local Polish Jews.
The Ghetto was liquidated in March 1943, with most of its inhabitants sent to their deaths at Bełżec extermination camp as well as Płaszów slave-labor camp and Auschwitz concentration camp.
This is a trip through difficult times of Krakow and its dwellers but absolutely noteworthy.
- Ghetto Heroes Square – memorial to the victims of the Kraków Ghetto
- Eagle Pharmacy – museum
- Lwowska street – fragment of the original ghetto wall with a commemorative plaque
- Limanowskiego street – fragment of the original ghetto wall
- Rękawka street – seat of Talmud Tora Organisation adapated later for a Jewish isolation hospital.
- Węgierska street – former Jewish Zucher Synagogue
- Krakusa street– Optima Factory
- Rynek Podgórski 3 – Madritsch Factory
- Józefińska street – seats of Jewish Social Self-Help Organisation, Jewish Hospital, Labour office