Plac Bohaterów Getta – Heroes of the Ghetto Square
Architect : Biuro Projektów Lewicki Łatak: Piotr Lewicki, Kazimierz Łatak
2005
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The former Mały Rynek [Small Market Square] of the Podgórze Dictrict, belonging in the years 1941-43 under the German Nazi occupation to the ghetto, was revitalised basing on the winning competition design. The development of the square has a symbolic character. It ties in with the history of the liquidation of the ghetto, when the furniture that was no longer necessary was left at the Square – after its Polish Jewish owners were deported to the death camps. The site commemorates the departed. The elements of the urban furniture were executed from tarnished bronze and corroded cast iron, whereby the surface of the square is built of concrete and grey syenite.