Pomorska Street
Pomorska Street—Ulica Pomorska—carries a name that Kraków’s 1940s generation associated with the Gestapo. The building here, also known as the Silesian House (Dom Slaski), was originally erected in the late 1930s to house students from Silesia. During Nazi occupation in World War II, it was used as SS offices in Kraków, and evidence points to probable later use by the NKVD in the 1940s and early 1950s. Today, the museum lives in the basement only: “Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa – Ulica Pomorska,” founded in 1981. Its two parts—“occupied Kraków” for 1939 to 1956, and “gestapo cells”—preserve detention spaces “kept in their former shape,” including an execution cell inscribed with *Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patri mori!* At least one of the 108 Martyrs of World War Two was interrogated here, and General Stanisław Rostworowski was killed in the building on 11 August 1944, linking this room to the machinery of terror. …
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