Podgórze District

Podgórze – district of Kraków situated on the right (southern) bank of the Vistula River. Initially a fishing village was granted city status by the Austrian Emperor Joseph II in 1784. Between the years 1784-1915 it was an independent well prospered township; in 1910 Podgórze was the 13th largest town in Galicia.
It's a place commemorating the most terrifying part of jewish history – the holocaust during the second world war.Before tha war more than 64000 Jews lived in Krakow. Over 48000 of them were driven out in the forced resettlements of the second half of 1940 and the early mounth of 1941. The Germans shut those who remained in a ghetto established in Podgórze.

• Ghetto – established in march 1941 in Podgórze, enclosed by a high wall with four gates, place where from mass deportation to the death camps took place.
• Apteka pod Orłem – Plac Bohaterów Getta/"Under the Eagle Pharmacy" at The Ghetto Heros Sguare – bulding which was inside the Ghetto, run by Polish owner – Tadeusz Pankiewicz – the only Pole the Garmans allowed to stay permanently in the Jewish area.
• The Plaszow Contretation Camp – both Poles and Jews were imprisoned there but in different sections. In mid 1943 the Plaszow Camp became a branch of the other bigger concatrations camps. The Plaszow Camps claimed many victims. People were enfeebled by hunger, beaten, exhaustet by over work.Many of them were tortured and executed.
• Oskar Shindler's enamel dish factory – Oskar Shindler – owner of this factory mainly employed Jews and saved 1000 of them during evacuation from Plaszow.
  It's hard to imagine such great inhuman cruelty.
  The oldest man-made structure in Podgórze is the
• Krakus Mound (Polish: Kopiec Krakusa) on Lasota Hill, believed to be the grave of the legendary prince Krakus.