Itinerary: •meeting point with English speaking guide in your hotel
Visit at Jewish district Kazimierz
The history of Jews in Krakow •Szeroka str.- heart of the Jewish XIV-XX c. life - 4 synagogues: •The Remuh Synagogue (mid of the XVI c.) with cemetery (entry fee 5 pln) •The Old Synagogue ( the oldest one in Krakow) museum (entry fee 7 pln)
•The High Synagogue (XVI c.) – the old photos exhibition ( entry fee 4 pln)
•The Tempel Synagogue (XIX c.) the Society of Progressive Jews (entry fee 6 pln)
•‘Oscar Schindler's yard’ •The New Square ( so called ‘Jewish square’) – ‘Alchemia’ Café - the extraordinary decor inside – coffee time
After coffee time, rest of the tour by private car: •The Ghetto in Podgorze district visiting •The Eagle Pharmacy Museum in Ghetto visiting (entry fee 6 pln)
•The last remains after the ghetto walls
•Oscar Schindler's factory - the original building ‘D.E.F’ (entry fee 6 pln) •Plaszow - the former Nazi concentration camp- the monument of the camp's victims •come back to your hotel by a car
The Jewish District in Krakow - Kazimierz
If you are still full of enthusiasm, we will see one more important place, which in distant times was a separate town and it was called Kazimierz. In this town where 2 cultures were worn away: Jewish and Christian. It exerted an incredible influence on climate and life of the people who lived there. There had not been quietly always and not always people agreed with each other. Both cultures wanted to exhibit their religions and life according to their rules. Thanks to that, today, walking through Kazimierz we are entering different world. The magic of Kazimierz affects on everybody. I will show you Jewish and Christian Kazimierz. We will visit synagogues and churches and we will walk through the beautiful streets full of cafés, where the cracowian bohema has moved. We will visit galleries full of antiques and modern art. Kazimierz had also sad moments which happened here during Nazi occupation. Local tenements were the scenery for :'The list of Oscar Schindler' filmed by Stephen Spielberg (about life of cracowian Jews during the II World War. They were saved by a German who has founded a factory). We will see authentic places from this film and the factory. I will tell you how it was exactly...
Jews on Podgórze – There was a time, when Podgórze was resided mostly by Jews. They led there their life and interests but during the II World War occupant has founded the ghetto, where displaced Jews from Cracow and Kazimierz.
There, on the square of Ghetto from 1941 to 1943, Jews were living and from where they sett off to labour and extermination camps… Today on this place there are especially arranged, varied of form and size chairs, which are the symbol of Jewish gathering and the displacement of them from Cracow.
On the square there is also a small museum commemorating those past times – "Eagle Pharmacy”.
In Cracow there was also a Nazis labour camp not far away from Pogórze quarter. It was called „labour camp Plaszów”. People were dying there…
It also served as the photographic plan in the film 'The list of Schindler'.
With tracks of the list of Schindler - 'The Schindler's List' is a film based on story of eyewitness of those events in cracowian ghetto, Mr Leopold Pfefferberg-Page, who was a boy then. After years he persuaded writer Thomas Kenneally to write down this story and that is how the book 'Schindler’s Ark' came into existence. On the basis of this book, world famous director Stephen Spielberg made a film showing events of those tragic days. The film was rewarded with Oscar. Stephan Spielberg came to Cracow and was delighted with places, that has remained unchanged since those days. I will show you places where the film was directed, especially places of the best shots. I will also tell you something about the controversial personage of Oscar Schindler .
