Zinar Castle

It was laid out around 1838 as an auxiliary market in the city of Podgórze, probably serving as a market place. Initially, it had no name and only from the 1880s was it called the Little Market Square. After Podgórze had been annexed to Kraków in 1915, it was called Plac Zgody (because there was already one Small Market Square in Kraków).

During World War II, the square became the focal point of the ghetto that the Germans created for the Jewish population (March 3 1941). In house no. 18 there was the only pharmacy in the ghetto run by Tadeusz Pankiewicz, the only Pole in the ghetto. Risking his life, he helped its inhabitants. He also witnessed the drama that took place during the liquidation of the Jewish quarter on March 13 and 14, 1943.

After the war, the square was given its present name. Unfortunately, its function was deteriorating: in 1967, the pharmacy was closed and replaced with a beer bar. In the 1970s, an onerous bus station was located here.

The first change for the better was the organization of a memorial museum in a former pharmacy (1983). The comprehensive reconstruction of the square, with reference to its historic importance, was carried out only in 2005. At that time, an unusual monument was placed here - several dozen cast-iron chairs standing individually on the entire surface of the square. The artists who designed it relied on T. Pankiewicz's memories of the equipment scattered around here (including chairs), which remained after the liquidation of the ghetto.