Krakow revamps Righteous Gentile's famed WWII pharmacy

Tadeusz Pankiewicz: photo - MHK

“You can see that in the darkest of times, there were some people who tried their very best to be as human as possible,” Israel's Ambassador to Poland Zvi Rav-Ner told our reporter Nick Hodge.

“If there were such people – if there are such people – then there is hope,” he said.

Photo: MHK

The Eagle Pharmacy Museum, which is a branch of the official Historical Museum of the City of Krakow (MHK), was relaunched to coincide with this month's 70th anniversary of the Nazis' liquidation of the Jewish ghetto.

Member of the museum's honorary committee Professor Aleksander Skotnicki, a medic and prominent promoter of shared Polish-Jewish culture, reflects on his personal memories of Pankiewicz, who died in 1993.

Meanwhile, award-winning comic artist Tomasz Bereznicki talks about The Pharmacist in the Krakow Ghetto, the comic book he was commissioned to create by the museum, based on Pankiewicz's extraordinarily detailed memoir, The Krakow Ghetto Pharmacy.

More information about the former 'Pharmacy Under the Eagle' (Apteka Pod Orlem) can be found on the museum's official web site, and on Facebook.

Inside the remodelled museum: photo - MHK