A tiny room on Tyniecka 10 street - Karol Wojtyła
The house on 10 Tyniecka street
in 1938 young Wojtyła joined Jagiellonian University, and his father decided to move with the son to Krakow.
They took two small rooms in the basement of the house that belonged to the pope’s aunt, on street Tyniecka 10 [photo on the right].
After the dead of the father, the second room has been occupied by the friend Mieczysław Kotlarczyk.
1st August 1944 was the day of the outbreak of Warsaw Uprising , and to prevent Kraków from supporting resistance,
Nazis start to arrest young Poles on August 7th. When they went into the house on Tyniecka street , the future pope has been actually inside his room,
but the door leading to it was missed by the Germans, maybe they were thinking noone was living there.
The next day cardinal Sapieha took him to the bishops palace, were Wojtyla, pretending to be a priest, was staying till the end of the war.
[ River Wisła (Vistula) near the house on 10 Tyniecka street.On the opposite bank buildings of Convent of St.Norbert Nuns ]
After the WWII the house remains in private hands, recently the basement has been bought by Arcbishopric of Cracow, with the plans to change the rooms, where the pope stayed, into a small museum.