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Kazmierz Kazimierz is a district of Cracow, the place where Jews have lived for five hundred years. We would start our walking tour from Szeroka Street, the former cultural, religious and trading centre. This is the broadest street of the Jewish quarter. Here are four synagogues, one called the Alte Schule, the oldest synagogue in Poland, another one, the Remuh, working for the evening Friday and Saturday morning services. We pay a visit to this renaissance synagogue. Adjacent to it, contrary to the Jewish tradition, why, I will explain, there is the 16th c, cemetery, like no other in Europe. Famous Cracow rabbis are buried there. There many intricate facts and legends connected with the lives of these people, like the story about Rabbi Heller andcadaka. There is a big old house known as the Landau family house, where there are three small shops reflecting the occupation and social status of the former owners. But what a surprise, when we enter one of these, there occurs to be one place furnished like a grocer's, tailor's and a drug store. A it is a goody restaurant teasing our nostrils with the smell ofpierogi,kugel,kreple, and what not. But that's for later, there are more small restaurants like that and we have only 3 hours for our sightseeing tour. Next to the Poper's synagogue, which we pass by, there is a house, where Helena Rubinstein , the oldest of eight, was born. We pop in to the "Alef" Restaurant, the favorite one of Steven Spielberg. There is his autograph behind the glass hanging on the wall like a picture. Two big lazy cats lying on two armchairs add to the family atmosphere of the house. We will have time to get inside the Alte Schule, which is now a museum, showing customs, traditions, religious objects of Jews living here before the war. Duration up to 4 hours Schindler's List Jewish Folk dinner |
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Oświęcim ( Auschwitz ) Concentration Camp Cemetery and place of the biggest genocide in the world. From 1940 to 1945 the Nazis killed about 1.500.000 people here. The camp was meant at first for the Polish political prisoners, later Russian POWs, Gypsies, and people of other nations. In 1942 the camp became the extermination camp of the Jewish population. The museum shows two places: Auschwitz, where there are exhibitions in the former prison blocks, the gas chamber, and the crematorium, and Birkenau, the other camp, only 2 miles away, which is the largest death camp in Europe . We climb the watchtower over the main gate, where we can see the vastness of the area of the camp, with the remains of the wooden barracks, and the ruins of the four crematoria. This place can never be forgotten. This is a warning sing for us, what can be done if we stay indifferent for evil. |
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