KRAKOW

After taking Savta to the airport (sad that she cannot continue the journey with us) we hopped on a train to Krakow, enjoying our own private cabin. The hotel in Krakow was situated perfectly and we were on our way to discover Krakow after a very short time.

In the photos you can see "Kikar HaShiluchim" in Krakow Ghetto (famous from "Schindler's Lists"). Here is where the "selections" took place.
This ghetto looks a lot more like one would expect, with most of the old buildings still standing. Warsaw ghetto on the other hand, was completely destroyed in the war and the ugly communist buildings took the place of the old ones. We visited a small museum in a Pharmacy that was owned by a Pole that helped the Jews throughout these terrible years and was given "Chasid Umot Olam" later. In the pharmacy we saw an exhibit of drawings, depicting life in the concentration camps, drawn by an Israeli survivor, Josef Bau, who was also depicted in the movie in the marriage scene . He was saved because of Schindler.





Here is the entrance to the partly rennovated factory:

The Jewish quarter (where Jews lived before the war) is full of Jewish Synagogues, cemeteries and...restaurants. Every year there is a huge Jewish festival here in Krakow. The Religious life in this town was very prosperous and many important rabbis lived here.

Ely and Noynoy on a bridge crossing the Wisla river walking from the ghetto to the old Jewish quarter.

Part of the time, it was snowing heavily, with strong winds...