Description

the museum is very popular among tourists.first of all because the tragic events that took place in krakow during the second world war are shown in stephen spielberg's oscar-winning film "schindler's list".the museum's atypical and modern exhibition will leave no one indifferent.learn the story of a german entrepreneur who led many jews through the war.
also, the streets of jewisz ghetto, podgórze, 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. 

itinerary:

the schindler’s factory museum (guided tour)

short break

ul.lwowska and ul.limanowskiego – the preserved sections of the former 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

pl.bohaterów getta – the ghetto pharmacy of tadeusz pankiewicz, a contact point of the jewish fighting organisation.

meeting point: ul.lipowa 4 in front of the main entrance (click to go to the [sensitive content] maps)
the guide with the "excursions.city" sign. 
end point: plac bohaterów getta (click to go to [sensitive content] maps)
length: ~2 km 
duration: 3 hours