Steven Spielberg's « Schindler's List » (1993) was shot in the very streets of Krakow. Heroes of the Ghetto Square (plac Bohaterów Getta), now dotted with bronze chairs in memory of the deported, and the Lwowska and Józefińska streets of the Podgórze district stood in for the ghetto on screen.
On Heroes of the Ghetto Square, the sixty-eight bronze chairs are no mere décor: each symbolises a thousand of the 68,000 Jews of the Krakow ghetto, and the belongings they were forced to abandon during the 1943 liquidation. A piercing memorial on the very site of the tragedy.
To feel the soul of Kazimierz, take a table at Café Hevre, set inside a former Jewish prayer house whose walls still bear frescoes and Hebrew inscriptions. Find the address via your eSIM data: the district's best spots hide in discreet courtyards and passages.