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A FRAUD PERPRETRATED BY HOLLYWOOOD
... use of. The history of the Jews in Krakow was discussed after we crossed the Vistula River. St Stanislaus is the patron saint of the city. His pool was visited, Catherine as usual barging in front of everyone's photo.
Many sites were quickly passed like the Paulinian Monastery. We also walked past the church for St Rita.
The Jewish Ghetto, or Kazimierz, was dwelled upon, from its inception to its role in the 'final solution', ...
A trip back two generations
... the Jews, it is also a celebration for the amazing work of Oscar Schlinder.
He gave his workers, mostly Jews, a place to work with shelter, food and security. He often put his life at risk for the Jews, and countless times avoided bein arrested by the Nazis.
There were some great stories about some of his workers being taken away to the concentration camp in Plasow, and Schlinder ...
Krakow and Auschwitz
... because there are no cars in Venice, so if you get lost or are running out of time to get somewhere, you can't just jump into a cab or on a bus! So it was nice to finally get on the train! Thank goodness we left ourselves 70 minutes to get to the train station, even though google maps said it should take 33 minutes :P Perhaps it is 33 minutes if you don't get lost and aren't carrying 45kg of gear between you! :P
The train ride to Milan was nice, and there ...
Summer's over in Krakow
... it was because their religion required them to bathe daily, something others clearly didn’t do enough of. Kazimierz also has remnants of the old Jewish Ghetto from the war, where Roman Polanski spent time before escaping as a child. We finished up the tour at the site that used to house the factory from Schindler’s List – which Roman Polanski was slated to direct, but then decided it hit a bit too close to home, so Steven Spielberg ...
Goodbye Poland (For Now Anyway)
... tour, the largest being the Holy Cross developed in 1860. Horses were used down the mine. They were not transported up and down each day but lived in the mine as long as they remained healthy which they did due to the good air quality and temperature in the mine. There must have been at least one forest of logs in the mine. The logs were, and still are, used to prevent cave-ins and again, due to the good climate underground, ...
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