During World War II, the pharmacy at 18 Bohaterów Getta Square stood inside the Kraków Ghetto, and its owner, Tadeusz Pankiewicz, was the only non-Jewish Pole permitted to remain there and run a business. The Eagle Pharmacy Museum (Muzeum Apteka Pod Orłem) now occupies the site in Podgórze, a former district of Kraków, as a branch of the Historical Museum of Kraków.
The pharmacy opened as a private business in 1910. Under the occupation it became a centre of clandestine aid, communication and resistance, giving shelter, medical supplies and moral support to the persecuted Jewish community.
After the war the site was gradually turned into a commemorative museum. Its permanent exhibition opened in 2003 with contributions from Roman Polanski, the Holocaust survivor and filmmaker. The museum suits visitors interested in the history of the Kraków Ghetto and in the people who helped its residents.
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