Chairs - Krakow, Poland
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A dramatic memorial dedicated to the victims of Krakow's Ghetto
Waymark Code: WMHQTW
Location: Małopolskie, Poland
Date Posted: 08/06/2013
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The memorial is significantly located in The Ghetto Heroes Square (formerly Plac Zgody, meaning Concord Square).
The Krakow Ghetto was formed in 1941 and dissolved in 1943, when thousands of Jewish inhabitants were moved to the Nazi labor camp of Plaszow. The people unable to work were immediately killed of transported to Auschwitz.
In this square one can see several dozens of huge chairs. A symbol of the procedures: those who received orders to leave the ghetto (everybody, in 1943) had to drop all their belongings, including chairs, in this exact square.
The designers of the memorial, the local architects Piotr Lewicki and Kazimierz Latak, were inspired in a book (Apteka w getcie krakowskim) by Tadeusz Pankiewicz, a man had a pharmacy in the ghetto. In this book, the author describes the daily life in the ghetto and its last days.
The memorial was inaugurated on the 8th December 2005.
Further info about Krakow Ghetto: (
visit link)