Jewish Ghetto Guided Tour in Krakow

The streets of the Jewish Ghetto and Podgórze district 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. 

What you'll see:

• Schindler's Factory- the museum presents the daily life and tragic events that took place in Krakow during World War II. 
• Ul. Lwowska and ul. Limanowskiego – the preserved sections of the 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

Meeting point: ul. Lipowa 4 in front of the main entrance of Shindler's Factory (click to go to the Google maps)
The guide with "excursions.city" sign.
Endpoint: Plac Bohaterów Getta
Length: 1.5 km 
Duration: 1 hour