Once independent, the city situated south of Wawel was the hub of Jewish life in Kraków for centuries, and today it is one of the greatest tourist attractions of the city

Szeroka Street is the heart of Jewish Kazimierz. Let a testimony to its significance be the fact that four synagogues used to stand on the street, which was unheard of anywhere else in Europe.

Standing on Szeroka Street Street, known not only as the stage of the final concert of the Jewish Culture Festival but also as the centuries-old centre of Jewish life in Kazimierz, is one of the oldest synagogues in Poland preserved in such a good condition

The parish church of St Joseph is a distinctive, widely recognisable sites of devotion.It dominates over the surface of the Podgórze Market Square, a central point of the town which only in the 20th century was incorporated to Cracow.

See a small fragment of the original wall around the former ghetto, preserved to our times, with a plaque commemorating the fate of the inhabitants

Situated in the Podgórze district, which in 1941 was turned into the Krakow Ghetto, the former Plac Zgody [Concord Square] was designated 'Umschlagplatz' under the Nazi occupation, the place where the Jews had to congregate to be deported.

This symbolic place is one small bright spot on the map of the tragic place which was the Jewish ghetto. The then Polish pharmacy acted as an asylum or embassy, providing shelter during deportation, delivering messages or packages inside and outside the ghetto.

Where the tumultuous history of a world war meets everyday life, and private lives – a tragedy that affected the whole world.