Kraków Trip Overview
Explore Krakow’s rich Jewish heritage and culture with an expert guide. Jews comprised a quarter of Krakow’s population before World War II, and its Kazimierz district was the center of Jewish life. Visit this now resurgent area as your guide charts its prewar and wartime days and how Steven Spielberg used it as a backdrop for his movie ‘Schindler’s List.’ View the Remuh Synagogue and Cemetery, and visit Oscar Schindler’s Factory museum to learn about Krakow’s and its Jews’ darkest hours.
The main exhibition title is ”Kraków under Nazi Occupation 1939–1945′. You are invited to join the tour with a professional guide who will explain to you all aspects of the exhibition, including the story of Oskar Schindler. Thanks to this tour, you don’t have to wait in a long line to purchase your tickets.
Upgrade your experience to enjoy a guided walk through the Jewish Getto.
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Duration: 5 hours
Starts: Kraków, Poland
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland
Explore Krakow’s rich Jewish heritage and culture with an expert guide. Jews comprised a quarter of Krakow’s population before World War II, and its Kazimierz district was the center of Jewish life. Visit this now resurgent area as your guide charts its prewar and wartime days and how Steven Spielberg used it as a backdrop for his movie ‘Schindler’s List.’ View the Remuh Synagogue and Cemetery, and visit Oscar Schindler’s Factory museum to learn about Krakow’s and its Jews’ darkest hours.
The main exhibition title is ”Kraków under Nazi Occupation 1939–1945′. You are invited to join the tour with a professional guide who will explain to you all aspects of the exhibition, including the story of Oskar Schindler. Thanks to this tour, you don’t have to wait in a long line to purchase your tickets.
Upgrade your experience to enjoy a guided walk through the Jewish Getto.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Kazmierz The Former Jewish District, Szeroka 24, Krakow 31-053 Poland
Within 2 hours you will discover the second most popular district of Krakow Jewish Quarter with professional guide. Amazing architecture, several synagogues, many historical facts and legends are just some of what awaits you during this excursion.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Muzeum Krakowa, oddzial Fabryka Emalia Oskara Schindlera, ul. Lipowa 4, Krakow 30-702 Poland
The museum presents the daily life and tragic events that took place in Krakow during World War II. The home of the museum is the site of the Schindler’s Factory shown in the Oscar-winning film “Schindler’s List” by Stephen Spielberg. The unusual and modern exhibition of the museum will not leave anyone indifferent.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Ghetto Wall Fragment, Limanowskiego 62 In the Schools Playground, Krakow Poland
Kraków’s most prominent evidence of its ghetto is this 12-metre stretch of the original ghetto wall. In 1983, a commemorative plaque was raised, which reads in Hebrew and Polish: “Here they lived, suffered and died at the hands of the German torturers. From here they began their final journey to the death camps.”
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: The Ghetto Heroes Square, Plac Bohaterow Getta, Krakow Poland
The Ghetto Heroes Square is a square in the Podgórze district of Krakow. In the years 1941–1943 it was within the ghetto. It was a place of concentration of the Jewish population before transport to concentration camps. Currently, there is an unusual monument in this place – several dozen cast-iron chairs standing individually in the square. They symbolize property and belongings of Krakow Jews scattered on the streets after the liquidation of the ghetto.
Duration: 30 minutes
