Wawel castle - symbol from the days of grand duchy...
Wawel palace
Inside the palace
Dragon - Emblem of Krakow
Holiday fair in Krakow...
View of Krakow
Zigismund bell
Barbicane - Enterance to the old city
Streets of Old city of krakow
Rynek Glowny - The main market square !
Basilica of St. Mary - Famous basilica with its two towers..
Street musicians in the market square
Monument to Adam Mickiewicz, the poet
Theater in Krakow for the art lovers...
Fully vegetarian Polish restraunt - Can you beleive it?? I had all traditional polish food the veggie style.. :)
Old style water pump - still in action..
Enterance to Auswitz concentration camp - biggest one there ever was...
Nazi's message to the jews about to be exterminated - “Arbeit macht frei” meaning “Work shall set you free”
Maximum security prison
Different rooms where they have evidences from the holocaust
It was just horrible conditions people were made to live in...
The sign says it all...
Wall of death
Roll call square - Even the sick and dead had to be dragged out of their bed for the head count...
Deadly gallows for the revolutionaries..
Where the commander was hanged by the Alies after the victory...
Need I say more... the deadly furnace to burn the dead ...
Gas chamber, where millions were exterminated...
Room of death...
The railway tracks which brought all the jewish prisoners to their death...
Bunker originally made for 56 horses was used for 1000 prisoners.. Animals were treated royally compared to humans...
Guess....
All marching towards their death...
Hallowed ground.. Most of the bunkers were burned down except a few as evidence to the holocaust..
This is where the judgement was made - who was to live and work for Nazi Germany and who was to die.. and all of that in less than 3 secs for each person...
Square of Kazimierz - the jewish part of the town
Synagogue of Isaac
Old synagogue - Museum of jewish history
Streets of kazimierz which featured in Schindler's list movie
River Vistula
Famous pharmacy in the Jewish ghetto of Podgorze - symbol of polish jew resistance
Remnants of the wall of the Podgorze ghetto where Jews were resettled
Oscar schindler's factory still standing...
Plaszlow labor camp - now just an open field