Tadeusz Pankiewicz’s Pharmacy in Kraków Ghetto

The permanent exhibition at the Eagle Pharmacy is located on the site of the former ghetto and commemorates the Holocaust of Krakow's Jews and the figure of Tadeusz Pankiewicz, a Righteous Among the Nations.

The basis of the exhibition's scenario are the memoirs of Tadeusz Pankiewicz, the pharmacy's owner and a witness to the events, first published shortly after the war in the book The Krakow Ghetto Pharmacy. The exhibition occupies all the rooms of the former pharmacy. The original utilitarian functions of the various rooms provide a basis for analysing threads from the history of the ghetto, the figure of Tadeusz Pankiewicz and his associates, Irena Droździkowska, Aurelia Danek-Czortowa, and Helena Krywaniuk.

In the customer room, you will learn about the history of the place and the people; in the prescription room, you will discover a variety of prescriptions for survival in the ghetto; in the on-call room, you will meet Tadeusz Pankiewicz, a witness and chronicler of the Holocaust; in the storage room, you will experience the atmosphere of the Pharmacy as a meeting place and shelter for ghetto residents. Finally, in the lab you will confront the post-war history of memory and oblivion of Krakow's Jews.