Photos from Krakow Ghetto

	The interior of Tadeusz Pankeiwicz's Pharmacy Under the Eagle. He was the only Pole the Nazis allowed to stay in the Ghetto when they cordoned it off for Jewish occupation in 1940-1941. He witnessed the daily horrors of Jewish life in the Ghetto, and wrote a book about his experience. Since 1983, the pharmacy has been a permanent museum dedicated to Jewish suffering during the Ghetto occupation.
	The exterior of the Pharmacy.
	This is Plac Zgody, where the Jews were forced to gather when the Nazis issued decrees concerning Ghetto operations. Many Jews were summarily shot here while the Ghetto was operational, and it was from here that they were deported to Plazow concentration camp. Today, there is not even a sign commemorating this site. It is a nameless parking lot.
	On the ground floor of this building was where Bernhard Offen lived, until they reworked the Ghetto boundaries, and his family was forced to move one street over. In two rooms, he lived before the war with his parents, two brothers, and a sister. His grandmother lived across the hall.
	Across the street from Bernhard's first home, was the Ghetto Orphanage. This is one of the only plaques in the former ghetto even recognizing that Jews suffered and died here.
	Across the rail line, was this building that was the hospital.
	One of two fragments of the original Ghetto walls. Though 12 feet high, the top of the wall was originally covered in broken glass. The shape of the top of the wall is also a familiar site to Jews, as the wall was designed to resemble their traditional tombstones.
	This fragment is only a few meters long.
	This is the last fragment of Ghetto wall. It rests behind a school today, enclosing the school grounds. This view of it, the only one the public can see is from a small park just outside the school. Over the years, the wall has been vandalized many times.

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