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Krakow: Former Concentration Camp Plaszow Guided Tour
Krakow: Former Concentration Camp Plaszow Guided Tour
Krakow: Former Concentration Camp Plaszow Guided Tour
Krakow: Former Concentration Camp Plaszow Guided Tour
Krakow: Former Concentration Camp Plaszow Guided Tour

Krakow: Former Concentration Camp Plaszow Guided Tour

By Thousand Miles Krakow
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Price is €20 per adult
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Overview

Plashow is a Nazi concentration camp in the southern suburbs of Krakow, founded by the Nazis shortly after the German invasion of Poland. Originally, Plashow, opened in 1940, was planned as a forced labour camp, but in 1941 the camp was expanded and subsequently converted into a concentration camp, where from October 28, 1942, deportation of Jews from the Krakow ghetto began.
Plashow was known as a concentration camp, supplying several military factories and a quarry with labour.
The camp and life in it are shown in the Schindler's List film (1993) about the life of Oskar Schindler. The area which held the camp now consists of sparsely wooded hills and fields, with one large memorial to all the victims, erected in 1964 and few smaller. As the Plaszow area is now a nature preserve, so the director Steven Spielberg built a camp replica in the Liban Quarry, some hundred metres away. We will visit all this points during our tour.

Activity location

  • Plaszow Concentration Camp
    • Jerozolimska
    • Krakow, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Plac Bohaterów Getta 18
    • 18 Plac Bohaterów Getta
    • 33-332, Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland

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Krakow: Former Concentration Camp Plaszow Guided Tour
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h2h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 15:00
Price details
€20.00 x 1 Adult€20.00
Total
Price is €20.00
Until Thu, 23 May

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedProfessional guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTram ticket is not included (3.4 PLN per person)

Know before you book

  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

Activity itinerary

The Ghetto Heroes Square (Pass by)
Though after the war the name of Plac Zgody was changed to Plac Bohaterów Getta (Ghetto Heroes Square) and a small monument was erected, the space’s historical significance never felt more pertinent than its post-war use as a public toilet or car park. Finally, after decades of neglect, Plac Bohaterów Getta was renovated in 2005, sparking significant controversy over the design. Laid out with 70 large well-spaced metal chairs meant to symbolise departure, as well as subsequent absence, the entire square has essentially been turned into an odd, but iconic memorial to the victims of the Kraków Ghetto.
Plaszow Concentration Camp
  • 1h
While thousands of tourists use Krakow as the starting point for visiting Auschwitz, few are aware that Krakow actually has a former concentration camp in its own backyard. On the other side of the river, in the depths of Podgórze, the vast area is almost undeveloped, despite the fact that it is located in one of the most desirable commercial and residential districts of the city - on the main communication artery (Wielicka Street), opposite a large shopping centre (Bonarka) and not far from main tourist attraction (Krakus Mound). It is the former seat of the `` Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau '' - the German Nazi concentration camp in Płaszów, today a wild, uneven space of land, which until recently did not indicate its own existence, let alone its wartime history.
Ghetto Wall Fragment (Pass by)
Kraków’s most prominent evidence of its ghetto is this 12-metre stretch of the original ghetto wall. In 1983, a commemorative plaque was raised, which reads in Hebrew and Polish: “Here they lived, suffered and died at the hands of the German torturers. From here they began their final journey to the death camps.”

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESPlaszow Concentration Camp
    • Jerozolimska
    • Krakow, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEPlac Bohaterów Getta 18
    • 18 Plac Bohaterów Getta
    • 33-332, Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland

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