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Ghetto
Heroes Square (Plac Bohaterow Getta), was part of the Krakow
Ghetto created by the Nazis during World War 2. It
was the place where Germans used to round up Jews before sending
them to concentration camps. The square has
been turned into a memorial to
the victims of the Krakow
ghetto with oversized bronze chairs symbolizing the missing
Jewish citizens of Krakow.
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Liban
quarry was situated on the edge of the Krakow
concentration camp of Plaszow under the German
occupation of Poland. It's notorious for slave labor of Jewish
as well as Polish prisoners and their martyrdom.
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Isaac
Synagogue at 16 Kupa Street in the historic
Kazimierz district, one of seven synagogues
in Krakow, dates from
1644.
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High
Synagogue at 36 Jozefa street opened in 1563 on the upper
floor of the home of a wealthy Jew in the Jewish
quarter of the city of Kazimierz, now in downtown
Krakow.
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Podgorze
district's main square,
Rynek Podgorski, once abutted on the Jewish ghetto of World War
2 where the Nazis relocated about 17,000 of Krakow Jews in
1941.
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Jewish
forum of Krakow: Szeroka street was
the heart of the old Kazimierz Jewish quarter as its main market
place and a seat of three rival synagogues.
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Krakow's
Tempel Synagogue at
24 Miodowa street was built in 1862 by the city's Jewish
progressives and has remained the venue for religious services attended by the
reformed Jews. The synagogue boasts rich interior
lavishly decorated with gilded ‘Moorish’ woodwork.
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Dajwor
street
runs alongside the eastern limit of the Jewish medieval quarter
of Kazimierz.
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Old
Synagogue
at 24 Szeroka street dates from the late 16th century.
The Renaissance edifice replaced its predecessor destroyed by
fire in 1557. In 1961 the Old Synagogue has been tirned into a
Jewish museum.
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Plac
Nowy square
was launched in the 19th century as the secondary Jewish
marketplace on the western outskirts of the Kazimierz ghetto.
The round structure in its center was built in 1900 as a kosher
slaughterhouse with butcher's stands. Now surrounded by trendy
cafes the Plac Nowy square has gained notoriety as a hangout for
bohemian types.
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Jozefa
street
used to separate the Jewish quarter from the much larger gentile
part of Kazimierz till 1818 thus its original name,
Christian-Jewish street. It has been renamed in 1773
after Emperor Joseph II who annexed Kazimierz to
Austria.
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Oskar
Schindler's Factory
at 4 Lipowa street, confiscated from its prewar Jewish
proprietors, produced enamelware and munitions for the Nazi army
during World War 2. Its wartime owner Oskar Schindler managed to
save about 1,200 Jewish prisoners who worked for him. In 2010
the factory has been turned into two museums. One of
them shows the German occupation and the holocaust
in Krakow. The other is MOCAK - Museum of
Contemporary Art in Krakow.
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Popper Synagogue
at 16 Szeroka street was founded by a wealthy merchant Wolf
Popper (Bocian) in 1620. After the WW2 it has been turned into a
culture center.
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Kupa Synagogue
at 8 Jonatana Warszauera street and Kupa street dates back to
circa 1590. Financed by the commune (kehilla), it gathered the
poor. The entrance is now on the other side of the Kupa
Sznagogue, at Miodowa street.
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A wall of broken
Jewish gravestones lines
Jakuba street. The Nazis wrecked all Jewish cemeteries in Krakow
including the oldest one, Remuh. Shattered tombstones have been
set in the wall of the Remuh cemetery alongside Jakuba street.
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Ancient Remuh
cemetery dates from years
1533 to 1799. It stretches between Szeroka and Jakuba streets in
the Jewish quarter of the historical Kazimierz city, now one of
downtown districts of Krakow. The cemetery is famous for
numerous Renaissance and Baroque tombstones and graves of
saintly rabbis as well as great scholars, Moses Isserles among
them.
