Sunday, August 24, 2008


These are more pictures from Kazimierz the old Jewish section across the Vistula from Krakow. The is the birthplace of Helena Rubinstein, who develop a line of cosmetics that were used world wide.

This is the square in this old section which was the center of Jewish thought for centuries. This is demonstrated by the next picture of the oldest synagogue that is hundreds of years old.
Though this was at the end of the trip and weariness was definitely settling in, as I stood in the center of this section as closed my eyes you could almost hear the sounds of the people opening up their stores, the clap of horses on the cobblestones. The greetings, the arguing, the laughter of people before.
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