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In Search of the Zebracki Family Ancestors
... Marriages. We found many actual records for the Zebracki family...VERY COOL! If anyone ever watches the show "Who Am I?" we were definitely experiencing it! Again see pics...really amazing!
From there, the Pastor took us to the church and showed us the Baptismal font that was used to Baptize many of the Zebracki family...the actual one! The church was like nothing we had ever seen, ornate, well kept, like new but old! It was built in ...
Passing by the wars
... Being battle ground again in the second world war and being 'moved' 200 km to the west, left its traces Many cities in South-East Poland had a numerous Jewish population (almost 50%), from which we only see memory plaques, as the remaining Jews were discriminated against also after the war and not allowed to live their values and traditions.
By the way, we were hosted in the Jewish quarter of Krakow, one of the hippest places to be these ...
Castles, every where we look
... away. Even from more than 10 kilometers you can see it clearly. Coming nearer, the enormousness of it even seems to grow. I thnk we have been eeing it for about 30 km of our tour. You can imagine how it must have been, nearing it as a enemy soldier and knowing that you are supposed to fight your way in. You don't seem to have a change, but probably your lord doesn't care about your changes.
A few days later, we were following a river, the Vah. Similar as along the Rhine, ...
Through the High Tatra Mountains
... until a wall appeared hazily on the horizon. The closer we drove to it, the more defined it became and the mountains emerged as hulking figures standing as sentinels of the border between the two countries. Similarly as the landscape became more brooding, so too did the weather, as storm clouds began to tower and empty while lightning touched the tops of the peaks all around us and thunder boomed. We drove into the mountain town of Zakopane only to run into ...
Slovakia is beautiful, and it is small.
We entered Slovakia in the south and in one and a half day, we were at the border with Poland. That's hardly possible in the Netherlands (also because it doesn't border on Poland :=)
But on this short trip and in the following 4 days, we have enjoyed being here a lot. The landscapes are beautiful, from hilly to mountainous and the landscapes are filled with small villages with churches and sometimes manors. There are small cities (Kosice, the largest city after Bratislava, ...