The Eagle Pharmacy, a pharmacy in Kraków's Ghetto
| The Holocaust of Kraków's Jews, the role of Kraków's pharmacist, the meaning of Pharmacy The Eagle Pharmacy in the tragic World War II period all together compose an exhibition Pharmacy in the Kraków's ghetto. The exhibition stresses the historicalness of the place by arranging fragment of pharmacy's interior, inseparably connected with Tadeusz Pankiewicz. His humanitarian attitude and explicit choice and consequence during the hardest moments of life are the canvas of the exhibition. The Holocaust of Kraków's Jews between 1939 and 1945 is illustrated with photographs, documents, plans and several exhibits. The exhibition is fulfilled by short archival films about Jewish life as it was before World War II, about ghetto and concentration camp in Plaszow, which are being projected on monitors placed in special spots of the exposition. Additionally, the museum is equipped with computer posts that are used by guests to browse a cast archive of photographs and documents about Holocaust. The access to internet allows connecting from this place with specific web sites. Guests of the museum can register their remarks and sign an electronic guest book. We recommend a documentary movie trylogy by Bernard Offen's - A survivor of the Kraków ghetto and five concentration camps Free of charge movie showings in the Eagle Pharmacy (18 Bohaterow Getta Square) on Saturdays and Sundays at 11:00 am Other times and dates can be set. Bernard Offen writes: Fashioning character of myself (37 mins) begins with my return to Kraków, Poland in the summer of 1981.The film recreates my personal Holocaust story with photographs of my family, the ghettos, deportations, and mass executions. The art of Jewish and Polish survivors and documentary photographs depict the camps I was in, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. My hometown, the concentration camp (23 mins) documents a tour I led in 1997 of the Kraków Ghetto and Plaszów Camp. I have shown thousands of people from around the world, including hundreds of Polish students, the places my family lived and two of the five camps in which I was imprisoned.The Holocaust, so impossible for any human being to grasp, becomes less abstract and more real with the telling of personal stories. My Auschwitz tatoo (99 mins) details my long and ultimately rewarding healing process and the need for others, in every generation, to confront the truth and their own responsibility for making the world a place where such horror can never again be perpetrated. |
