WROCŁAW - In Your Pocket

Contents
Arrival & Transport 10
The Basics 14
Culture & Events 17
Hotels 22
Restaurants 32
Cafes 50
Nightlife
Bars & Pubs 52
Clubs 57
History 60
The story of Karl Denke, known today as ‘the Cannibal
of Ziębice’, was actually lost for decades until Lucyna
Biały, an archivist at the University Library in Wrocław,
rediscovered it in 1999 while reading German newspapers
from the 1920s. Coincidentally, the republishing of the
shocking story also solved the mystery of a strange series
of photographs that Tadeusz Dobosz - today professor of
Forensic Medicine at the Medical Academy of Wrocław –
had found dumped in the trash at the Medical Academy
in the 1980s and rescued out of curiosity. Originally
belonging to the German Institute of Forensic Medicine
in Breslau, the photos turned out to be police slides
taken during the investigation of Denke’s apartment in
1924, including images of human remains, killing tools,
suspenders made of human skin and the only known
photo of Karl Denke – taken after his death and pictured
above. For the complete details of this grisly story turn to
page 24.
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Hidden on a hill of granite 65 miles southwest of Wrocław
lie the partial remains of one of the largest, most complex
and completely compassionless mechanisms of mass
slaughter ever created. Gross-Rosen was but one
seemingly small cog in an almost inconceivable system of
12,000 concentration camps extending over 17 occupied
countries outside the Reich; however, Gross-Rosen’s own
administration over a vast network of almost 100 regional
sub-camps is indicative of the sheer scale of the horror
that Hitler created literally from village to village, across an
entire continent. Today the site serves as a museum, and
a memorial to all those perished. We visit it on page 6.
Sightseeing
Essential Wrocław 62
Old Town 67
Ostrów Tumski 68
Centennial Hall & Parks 70
Jewish Warsaw 72
Gnomes 73
Festung Breslau 74
Further Afield
Silesian Churches of Peace 76
The Great Escape 79
Leisure 80
Shopping 82
Directory 89
Maps & Index
City Centre Map 91
City Map 92
Country Map 94
Tram Map 95
Street Register 96
Listings Index 97
Features Index 98
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