The 70 chairs represent loss and absence as the ghetto in Krakow was cleared and all the residents’ possessions were strewn across the streets.The square was erected around 1838 as the 2nd, subsidiary market square for Podgorze, which at that time was a separate town. After 1880 it was called Maly Rynek (Little Market). In 1917 the name was changed into Plac Zgody (Concord Square) because of and in memory of the incorporation of Podgorze to the city of Krakow which took place in 1915. The present name of the square dates from 1948 and was given to commemorate the Polish Jews who were imprisoned and died in the Krakow Ghetto between 1941 and 1943.