Walking the Jewish Heritage Trail

15th December

Maintaining the Jewish theme, we took a 3 hour guided walk of Kazimierz, the old Jewish quarter and ghetto of Krakow, where 68,000 Jewish people had lived before the War. Isobel our guide was excellent, and explained the main historical sites, culminating in the memorial square of chairs, where 1,000 people had been massacred on a single day, and Oscar Schindlers factory. Schindler, a German, managed to save a 1000 jewish people, by employing them in his pots and pans factory (basis of the film Schindler’s List).