The Krakow Ghetto Pharmacy

The comic story was prepared as part of Tadeusz Pankiewicz’s Pharmacy in the Kraków Ghetto - the project of the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków. The publication is based upon Tadeusz Pankiewicz’s memoirs and shows the life of pharmacist in occupied Kraków in 1941-1943. Pankiewicz inherited pharmacy „Under the Eagle” after his father and he didn’t agree to move out and abandon the pharmacy when this part of the city was transformed by invaders into the ghetto. Pankiewicz stayed and become the only one Pole who lived in Jewish ghetto. He used to risk his life by helping people in ghetto in many ways. Pankiewicz and his three employees helped people to escape and made for the others living in ghetto a little easier. The Pharmacy was one of the most important place in the ghetto, there were distributed drugs in here, secret mails outside the walls, smuggling articles and others. After the end of the war the pharmacist wrote down his memoirs. It was published the first time in 1947.