Eagle Pharmacy - Apteka pod Orłem
Apteka pod Orłem - Eagle Pharmacy
Plac Bohaterów Getta 18
30-547 Kraków
tel.: +48 12 656 56 25
The pharmacy, founded in 1910 was the only one, and its owner Tadeusz Pankiewicz the only non-Jew that were inside of the Cracows Ghetto during the Second World War.During that time the building of the pharmacy became the meeting point of Jewish artist and scientists,within its rooms many of people found the shelter from the deportation, later on escaping abroad. Pankiewicz and his assistants helped to smuggle through the ghetto borders food, precious things , messages.
During the deportation the pharmacy stuff gave out the bandages and medicines to needed.
After the death of the owner the building has been changed into the museum that shows the history of Second World War Jewish Holocaust, and shows the importance of the pharmacy during Nazi occupancy.