If you are curious about exploring the dilapidated district that once housed the wartime ghetto, then this small museum is a good place to start. It is located in a former chemists that belonged to the legendary Polish chemist Tadeusz Pankiewicz, since awarded the 'Righteous Among Gentiles' distinction by the Israelis. Pankiewicz, a gentlemanly graduate of the Jagiellonian University, refused to leave his property when the ghetto was created. His chemists soon became a hive of resistance to Nazi policy. Today, save for one stretch of wooden stalls, the atmosphere of the chemists has been lost. However, the rooms house a small but powerful series of exhibits - wartime photographs, letters, documents and more, chronicling the terror of the Ghetto. It's worth having a look at the museum's on site computers, especially the letters from former acquaintances of Pankiewicz.
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