70 chairs against forgetting. The oversized chairs recall (and admonish) the tragic fate of the ghetto inhabitants, of whom nothing remains apart from their furniture.

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Mariusz Fendrych

November 9, 2022

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During the war years, the square was the central part of the ghetto. Chairs symbolize the place where the victims were commemorated.

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Neiße Steinbock

December 11, 2022

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Only the chairs remained when the people were taken from here to the concentration camp, today a place to remember

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Location: Kraków, Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

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