KAZIMIERZ, PODGORZE, PLASZOW

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If you have seen "Schindler's List"

(which I haven't) you may recognize this street

or courtyard. Here the movie was filmed.

I loved the decorations along the street.

The balcony from a scene.

This was hanging across the courtyard and I liked the creativity.

This was a school for the people to go to study the Torah.

Now it is a library and gallery.

Looking down the street.

This is the original writing on the entry of a building.

There are only one or two other such writings.

In the stars are the dates 1810 - 1910.

Street in Kazimierz.

We then walked across the Wisla River to Podgorze -

the place of the Jewish Ghetto.

It was here that everyone living here had to move to make

room for the Jewich people to move in.

Apartments were VERY crowded.

Many died here, killed here and most were

taken to the Plaszow Death Camp where they

were killed upon arrival.

There were very few survivors of this ghetto.

The ghetto sign.

These chairs in the town square are a memorial to

those who died here. They are set randomly throughout the square.

Street in Podgorze.

Apartment building.

This is an apteka (drug store) on the street

corner of the town square. This was operated by

a man who was not a Jew and he remained here because

he felt that the Jews would need medical supplies in

their day to day lives. He became quite a friend to them.

It was here that many pf the people hung out and

visited and gossiped and shared stories.

When the liberators were coming the Jews remaining

in the ghetto were brought to the town square and

separated into groupd and killed. They were lined up in the

streets coming into the square or the children were

lined up on the square and killed. This is a side

street where some of the killings took place.

This is part of the wall around the ghetto.

Notice it appears like headstones which was

a silent message to the people living here that they

would die. This is the only stone or cement fence

around a ghetto or camp.

The sign on the wall.

Something like:

Here lived, suffered, and ? at the hands

of Hitler remaining their last way to

destruction. 1941 - 1943

Nearby apartment buildings had blackened windows

so people could not see into the free streets.

Sign marking the way to Schindler's factory.

Sign on Schindler's Factory today.

Here now is a museum.

A SAD DAY FOR ALL MANKIND.