Krakow Schindler's Factory Guided Tour
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Experience Highlights
This guided tour of the Schindler Factory in Krakow will show you the historical milestones of the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War, in a tour lasting approximately 1.5 hours in small groups of maximum 15 people.
You will see real articles, photos and documents from the time, displayed in permanent exhibits in the factory's museum, a living part of the city's history that commemorates one of its darkest episodes.
- Learnabout the story of Oskar Schindler and his important role in Kraków during the Nazi occupation.
- Visit the museum and view photographs, historical documents and artefacts from Poland in World War II.
- Attend permanent exhibitions at the Schindler factory, such as "Kraków under Nazi occupation 1939-1945".
What’s included
- Guided tour of the Schindler Factory in Kraków
- Entrance to the factory museum
- Local professional guide
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Explore the Schindler Factory in Krakow for a tour steeped in history and culture, where you can learn about the milestones that marked a before and after in Poland during the Nazi occupation in World War II.
A professional guide will tell you all about the events of the Jewish Ghetto on an approximately one and a half hour tour of the Schindler Factory Museum, which houses permanent exhibitions such as "Kraków under Nazi occupation 1939-1945".
As you enter, in small groups of maximum 15 people, you will see real photographs, documents and artefacts from the period , preserved in perfect condition, showing part of the horrors suffered by the local people in the war against Hitler's Germany.
You will learn the story of Oskar Schindler, the iconic German businessman who, despite being connected to the Nazi establishment as an informer, became a hero to Polish Jews.
In his factory, Schindler sheltered more than a thousand prisoners of the Nazi regime, whom he gave work and protected, preventing them from being imprisoned and executed in the Plaszow concentration camp in Krakow.
On this guided tour you will discover the events that changed the country forever, with a timeline starting in 1939 and extending through the Nazi occupation to the end of the Nazi occupation.The tour will take you through the Nazi occupation, the execution of the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, the liberation and the years that followed, marked by the communist rule of the Soviet Union.