Pomorska Street - ‘Krakow 1939-1956′
Pomorska Street
‘Krakow 1939-1956′
ul. Pomorska 2
30-039 Kraków
phone: +4812 633 14 14
Between 1939-1945 the Silesian House served as headquarters of Security Police and Security Service for the Krakow’s District. The 4th department was the Secret State Police (Geheime Staatspolizei) called Gestapo.
Today you can visit detention cells, kept in the former shape,a place of torture for thousands Poles and people of other nationalities.
The Exposition is divided into three sections:
The first reveals Nazi apparatus of terror and occupier’s policy exercised on Polish citizens of Krakow and Holocaust of Krakow’s Jews during WWII. The most interesting arepersonal items self-made by polish prisoners - chess made of bread, chaplet made of string, or a napkin embroidered by a woman prisoner.
Second part of the exposition shows
Krakow’s resistant movement against German occupation, and participation of Krakowians in creating the polish underground.
The third, and smallest part of exhibition shows the Cold War relicts, examples of Stalin’s’ acts, communist repression apparatus aimed at every opposition, and various document from the time 1945-56.