Plac Bohaterów Getta is a large public square first laid out in 1836 in the Podgórze district of Kraków, just across the river from Kazimierz, the old Jewish quarter. After the Jewish residents of the city were forced into the ghetto in 1941 (liquidated in March 1943), this square, then known as Plac Zgody, became a place for relief, socialization and escape from the overcrowded tenements as well as a scene of horror, where the breaking up of families, mass deportations, beatings and executions took place. Today it is a memorial to the victims of the ghetto, with 70 metal chairs set out symbolizing departure, and subsequent absence. Each chair represents 1,000 victims.

The ghetto wall: