This was part of Central Europe - Day 2 🇵🇱 🔗.
I joined the Jewish Kraków tour at 5:00 PM, and we started at the Old Synagogue situated in the Kazimierz district. We learnt about the Jewish history in Kraków and in Poland. We also saw the Izaak Synagogue.
We passed by the Corpus Christi Basilica and also saw some of the locations where the film ‘Schindler’s List’ was shot.
Next, we walked to Wolnica Square which was the remainder of the old market square in Kazimierz. We also saw the Trzej Grajkowie sculpture, which is also a fountain.
We crossed the Wisła River on the Father Bernatek’s Bridge into Podgórze. The bridge has been adorned with acrobatic, gravity-defying sculptures by contemporary Polish sculptor Jerzy Kędziora.
We saw the Blu mural “Never Follow” on the way to Plac Bohaterów Getta, the public square which marks the beginning of the purpose-built Jewish wartime ghetto that stretched for several blocks in this part of Podgórze.
Laid out with 70 large, well-spaced metal chairs meant to symbolise departure as well as subsequent absence, the entire square has essentially been turned into an odd, but iconic memorial to the victims of the Kraków Ghetto.
Our last stop was Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory where he employed Jewish laborers and succeeded in saving more than a thousand of them from the Nazis. The building now houses a museum.
