Inglot Klezmer Trio at the Ariel Cafe
Music and dinner at the Ariel Cafe in Kasimierz, Krakow--great music - bad
food. We had dinner here on our first night in Krakow - and then returned
the next day to tour the Szeroka Street area. |
Ariel Cafe - entrance/shop
Looking out from the cafe -- there's Bobby in the corner |
Gila and Al in the Ariel Cafe gift shop
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Schindler's factory entrance
The exterior of these buildings of Oscar Schindler's enamelware factory (now
housing an electronic components factory) was used in filming "Schindler's
List." |
Schindler's factory gates
These original Schindler's factory gates can be seen in Spielberg's film.
It is only since the end of Communism that Krakow's Jewish past is being
acknowledged and commemorated - in part due to the success of Schindler's
List, which was filmed in Krakow. |
Fragment of the Podgorze ghetto wall with memorial plaque
In September 1939 German troops entered Krakow. Jews were forced to identify
themselves by wearing armbands bearing the Star of David. In March 1941
all 64,000 of Krakow's Jews (one-quarter of the city's population) were forcibly
rehoused in 320 buildings in the Podgorze district. By March, 1943, the
entire population of the ghetto had been liquidated - either being killed
or transported to the death camps. |
