The High Synagogue is located in a late Renaissance brick building on a rectangular floor plan. It was most likely built between 1556 and 1563. According to one hypothesis, the synagogue was built by Sephardic Jews following the example of the synagogues built in the Venetian ghetto. Another version states that the wealthy merchant Izrael obtained permission from King Sigismund II Augustus to build a synagogue in the second half of the 16th century. August for permission to build a synagogue and allegedly received it.

Simple community center with art exhibitions, lectures, courses and special events.

The Temple Synagogue is located on a corner plot on the corner of Miodowa and Podbrzezie streets. The building was constructed in 1860–1862 and is in the eclectic neo-Renaissance style with Moorish elements. On the richly decorated façade above the main entrance are black marble plaques with the Ten Commandments. On the façade and the side walls are two-part arcade windows with unique colorful stained glass from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The wall paintings with plant motifs have an oriental character.

Built in 1900, the tire-shaped round hall housed several trading stalls and a Jewish poultry slaughterhouse. In 1927, the Jewish community of Krakow leased the building and built a larger butcher's shop in the previously empty inner courtyard.

The Kupa Synagogue, also known as the Synagogue of the Poor, is located in the historic Krakow district Kazimierz The simple synagogue from 1643 with baroque accents is located in the district that was reserved exclusively for the Jewish community from Krakow by King John I Albrecht in 1495. The synagogue was built from donations to the Jewish community (Kahal). Its name is derived from kupat, the Hebrew word for community treasury.

The Kupa Synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis during the Second World War and used for secular purposes until 1991.

Helena Rubinstein was born Chaja Rubinstein on December 25, 1870 in the Jewish quarter of Kazimierz in Krakow and grew up at Szeroka 14. Chaja Rubinstein changed her name when she emigrated to Australia in 1896.

Robert Simon Heinemann was born on December 4, 1856 as the first child of Marcus and Henriette Heinemann in Lüneburg. Like almost all male members of the Heinemann family, he attended the Johanneum grammar school. Unlike his ancestors, he became neither a merchant nor a banker, but a lawyer.

Jindřich Kohn

Born 15.08.1883
Last residential address before deportation: Prague V
Address/Place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague I, Filipa de Monte 4
Transport At, nr. 289 (07. 05. 1942, Prague -> Theresienstadt)
Transport Ax, nr. 289 (09. 05. 1942, Theresienstadt -> Sobibór, Ossowa)
Murdered

Adelheida Kohnová, née. Zeiselová

Born 05.09.1883

Murdered 1942 Sobibór, Ossowa

The Jewish cemetery, located outside the fortress walls of Terezín, was created shortly after the establishment of the ghetto and concentration camp on a site where Soviet soldiers had been buried after the First World War. Initially, the deceased Jews were buried in individual graves before the prisoners had to dig mass graves due to the high mortality rate caused by the terrible camp conditions.