KRAKOW (Cracow), EXPLORING the historic OLD JEWISH CEMETERY (Poland) ✡️
SUBSCRIBE: - Let's visit Krakow's oldest Jewish cemetery, one of Europe's oldest and most graphic in the beautiful city of Krakow. Vic Stefanu, vstefanu@yahoo.com. Kraków, also Cracow or Krakow is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River (Polish: Wisła) in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century.
Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union.[8] Poland's capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea, Lithuania, and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast to the north, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.
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KRAKOW, EXPLORING the historic JEWISH CEMETERY ✡️, POLAND
SUBSCRIBE: - Let's go for a walking tour of this very historic and very spectacular Jewish cemetery located in the beautiful city of Krakow in Poland. Filmed on a Sunday (it was quiet) and very foggy morning and that made it even more spectacular.
Kraków, a southern Poland city near the border of the Czech Republic, is known for its well-preserved medieval core and Jewish quarter. Its old town – ringed by Planty Park and remnants of the city’s medieval walls – is centered on the stately, expansive Rynek Glówny (market square). This plaza is the site of the Cloth Hall, a Renaissance-era trading outpost, and St. Mary’s Basilica, a 14th-century Gothic church.
Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union.[8] Poland's capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea, Lithuania, and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast to the north, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.
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New Jewish Cemetery in Krakow
The new Jewish cemetery in Krakow, together with the other Jewish cemetery that I saw in the Jewish Quarter, are absolutely disgrace. See how it looks like and share this important video.
New Jewish Cemetery in Krakow, Poland - March 25, 2017
New Jewish Cemetery in Krakow, Poland
Old Jewish Cemetery in Krakow, Poland
Beside the Rumah Synagogue in the Kazimierz District.
New Jewish Cemetary Cracow Poland
New Jewish Cemetary in Cracow, Miodowa 55. Cemetery counts hundreds years of history, during 2nd War Germans devasted new Jewish Cemetery. Currently you can in this quiet place to pray for the people and world peace.
Special Jewish visit in Kraków/Poland Jewish District - Kazimierz Part 1
Kazimierz – the district south of the Old Town between the Wisła River and ul. Dietla (where a tributary of the Wisła once flowed) was the centre of Jewish life in Kraków for over 500 years, before it was systematically destroyed during World War II. In the communist era it became one of Kraków’s dodgiest districts while gradually falling into disrepair. Rediscovered in the 1990s, thanks to the fall of the regime and worldwide exposure through the lens of Steven Spielberg, Kazimierz has rebounded and is today Kraków’s most exciting district – a bustling, bohemian neighbourhood packed with historical sites, atmospheric cafes and art galleries. Well-known for its associations with Schindler and Spielberg, traces of Kazimierz’s Jewish history have not only survived, but literally abound in the form of the district’s numerous synagogues and Jewish cemeteries. In fact, no other place in Europe conveys a sense of pre-war Jewish culture on the continent better than Kazimierz. As a result, the district has become a major tourist draw and pilgrimage site for Jews, which has led to the return of contemporary Jewish culture in the area. Each summer since 1988 the massively popular Jewish Culture Festival has filled Kazimierz’s streets and cafes with music, while educating Kraków’s residents and guests about the city’s pre-war Jewish history and celebrating modern Jewish culture. The fact that it’s one of the year’s biggest parties proves that there’s more to Kazimierz than sepia photographs and old synagogues. Here you’ll find the heart of Kraków’s artistic, bohemian character behind the wooden shutters of dozens of antique shops and art galleries. Peeling façades and obscure courtyards hide dozens of bars and cafes, many affecting an air of pre-war timelessness. Centred around the former Jewish square now known as Plac Nowy, Kazimierz has emerged as the city’s best destination for cafe culture and nightlife. Alternative, edgy and packed with oddities, Kazimierz is an essential point of interest to any visitor.
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Jewish remnants of Krakow [Kult America]
As an American one thing that comes across as exotic about Poland, is the fact that the country is made up of its own people. Unless you’ve grown up in a homogeneous society like that, its difficult to imagine.
But Whats more difficult to imagine, after spending some time in Poland, is the fact that this place was once a diverse part of Europe, famous for accommodating outsiders and immigrants. Most notably, were the Jewish people who actually lived here for hundreds of years. As I’ve previously pointed out, the tragedies of war left many literally visible scars on Poland, but in the case of Jewish Poles, these wounds is not so obvious, in that for many people its simply hard to see something which has completely vanished.
With the most powerful evidence of a murdered society being ash mixed with dirt in the former Nazi concentration camps, I wanted to explore to see what other remnants had been left behind, so I headed to Kraków to see what I could find.
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Common Ground: Polish Volunteers Caring for Jewish Cemeteries
There are over 1200 abandoned Jewish cemeteries in Poland. Pope John Paul called these sacred places for both Christians and Jews that should bring Poles and Jews together. Here are brief profiles of five Poles who have volunteered to care for one or more Jewish cemeteries.
'Wailing Wall' in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Krakow, Poland
Beside the Rumah Synagogue in the Kazimierz District.
”A vanished world” - documentary about Jewish cemeteries in Moldova. Radio Europa Libera
Restoring Jewish Graves: Volunteers work in Poland to restore tombstones desecrated during WWII
During World War II, over 1,000 Jewish cemeteries in Poland were desecrated by the Nazis, who used the tombstones for construction work as part of the humiliation of Jews and devastation of their heritage. After the war, Poland's communist authorities continued to use Jewish tombstones - known as Matzevas - to build roads, airports, monuments and even houses.
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Jewish Cemetery of Warsaw
The Warsaw Jewish Cemetery is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe and in the world. Located on Warsaw's Okopowa Street and abutting the Christian Powązki Cemetery, the Jewish necropolis was established in 1806 and occupies 33 hectares(83 acres) of land. The cemetery contains over 250,000 marked graves[1], as well as mass graves of victims of the Warsaw Ghetto. Although the cemetery was closed down during World War II, after the war it was reopened and a small portion of it remains active, serving Warsaw's existing Jewish population
Wailing Wall: Remuh Cemetery: Krakow, Poland
The wailing wall in Remuh cemetery in Kazimierz, the Jewish quarter of Kraków. The wall is made of pieces of gravestones smashed by the Nazis in the Second World War.
Beautiful Cemetery in Krakow , Rakowicki 1800, Dark Sanctuary.
The Rakowicki Cemetery was set up in 1800--1802 at an estate in Prądnik Czerwony village, originally on an area of only 5.6 ha. It was first used in mid-January 1803. The new cemetery came into existence in relation to a public health-related government ban on burials in old church cemeteries within the city. The land was purchased for 1,150 zloty from the monastery of the Discalced Carmelites of Czerna, and built with funds from the city and the surrounding villages (including some future Districts of Kraków): Rakowice, Prądnik Czerwony and Biały, Olsza, Grzegórzki, Piaski, Bronowice, Czarna Village, Nowa Village, Krowodrza and Kawiory, all granted the right to bury their dead there. The first funeral took place on January 15, 1803, with the burial of an 18-year-old named Apolonia from the Lubowiecki family of Bursikowa estate.[3]
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WARSAW: EXPLORING priceless art and statues in POWĄZKI CEMETERY (POLAND)
SUBSCRIBE: - Let's visit the fascinating Powązki Cemetery which is a historic cemetery located in the Wola district, western part of Warsaw, Poland. It is the most famous cemetery in the city, and one of the oldest, having been established in 1790. The necropolis features graves of many illustrious individuals from Polish history, including those interred along the Avenue of Notables (Aleja Zasłużonych) created in 1925. It estimated that over 1 million people have been buried at Powązki.
Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union. Poland's capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea, Lithuania, and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast to the north, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.
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Kraków , Jewish Cemetery 1800,Walking Tour Dark Sanctuary '' Miserere''
The New Jewish Cemetery was founded in 1800 on grounds purchased by the Jewish Qahal from the Augustinians. It was enlarged in 1836 with additional land purchased from the monks. Following the return to independence, the New Cemetery became nearly full.[3] From 1932 on, burials were directed to a new plot bought in 1926 by the Qahal along Abrahama Street and the one at nearby Jerozolimska Street, both in the Wola Duchacka neighborhood (now part of Podgórze district). These two other cemeteries formed the site of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp during the Holocaust and no longer exist.[4] The Jews from the Kraków Ghetto were sent there
Jewish Cemetery in Katowice, Poland 1868 Walking Tour
Jewish cemetery in Katowice (Kozielska 16 street) was built in 1868.
During the World War II, Nazis partially devastated the cemetery.
Nowadays, on the separated with the wall cemetery, on the surface of 1,1 ha, about 1 400 -- 1 500 graves are preserved. There are, among others, splendid graves of three generations of the eminent Jewish families of merit for Katowice development: Goldsteins, Schalsches, Grünfelds, Glasers, Sklareks czy Panofskis and a Jacob Cohn's grave -- the rabbi of Katowice municipality. Some graves are sumptuously decorated. Some of them have the architectonic form which refers to Roman buildings
In 1868, a splendid mortuary was build near the cemetery. There were Chawra Kadisza rooms and a mournig room. The building was thoroughly rebuilded and expanded in 1870.