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Reviewed July 21, 2024

Blinking heck. This is an amazing place. There is a lot to read, but the photos are brilliant. I learnt so much. My kids (18 and 16) insisted on reading every word. I don't think I can overstate this but it the perfect companion visit to the Auschwitz tour you will have done, but takes a surprising amount of time to see/read it all. Make sure you give it time. We had to leave early and did not get to see any of the new stuff. Don't be put off by the fact that it is in the middle of nowhere, the interior is lovely (although one of the text boxes did not match the picture and it has bothered me ever since, but that might just be a me thing.) This museum should be in the very centre of the old town area. If I can get a Costa Coffee there, I should be able to learn about Jewish history there too...Just sayin'

Date of experience: July 2024
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Reviewed July 17, 2024 via mobile

Schwartz's images of Polish people, cueing for scarce necessities, was striking. Emotionally worse were the images of Auschwitz, of course. I really liked the part of the exhibition with 10 survivors and their stories. Over all, a very good museum, well spend time. Three hours of experiencing this interesting establishment would be even better if the cafe offered something to eat.

Date of experience: July 2024
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Reviewed March 6, 2024 via mobile

Located along Ulica Dajwor is this museum that's dedicated to the Jewish faith in this most fascinating of city's.
The wonderful Galicia Jewish Museum gives great insights in the influence of the Jewish population on Krakow over the centuries and of course highlights the persecution of the people of Jewish faith during World War Two by the Axis forces ,let's not forget that Germany wasn't the only country to persecute Jews throughout Eastern Europe during that dark chapture in the history of mankind, its a great museum to check out if you're planning a holiday to Krakow and easy to locate along Ulica Dajwor .

Date of experience: March 2024
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Reviewed January 9, 2024 via mobile

Very moving and thoughtful photos and captions. Fabulous permanent and temporary exhibitions.Excellent bookshop and cafe.

After visiiting Schindler factory and Auschwitz, this museum gave a much more rounded overview of Jewish recent and historical culutre and life in Krokow and the surrounding region.

Prof. Johnathan Webber's explanaitions and captions in the permanent exhibition are just magnificent and really make you think hard about the aftermath and the futre following Nazi crimes against Jews.

Bookshop is fantastic, staff are welcoming and the presence of some stools to sit and mull on are very welcome as you read and wonder.

Date of experience: January 2024
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Reviewed December 13, 2023

Not a museum, most definitely an art gallery, this turned out to be my favourite place in Krakow.

Built around a permanent exhibition of modern day documentary photography concerning the occupation, exile, extermination and lives of Jews in and around the area, nothing speaks to me more than quality images on a theme, and it turned out that these did so to possible an even greater extent than any of the other museums or memorials liberally scattered around the city.

Outside of the permanent exhibition, the intimate and tender documentary work of Agnieszka Traczewska in her exhibition “Kroke. Orthodox Jews in Kraków” was worth the price of entry, and the cartoon skateboard paintings on the other side were welcome relief from what could have been overwhelmingly depressive.

On top of that, the in-house coffee shop served the best espresso, and the bookshop was vast.

Spend a couple of hours if you have them.

Date of experience: November 2023
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