Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Highlights of Study Abroad Trip - Krakow

On the train to Krakow:






St. Mary's Church (in the Rynek):


The Barbican:




A late afternoon snack:


Walking around the Old City:




Meeting with Polish graduate students for dinner:


Nathan's Villa Hostel:






The Schindler Factory Museum:














Fragment of Krakow Ghetto wall:




Scenes in the former Krakow Ghetto:




Plaszow
Camp Commandant Amon Goeth's home (it's for sale):




Memorials at Plaszow
Communist era:





Post-communist:






Walking around Kazimierz:






Dinner at Szara Kazimierz
"Springtime Tatanka" (for me):


"Strawberry Mojito" (for everyone else):


Strawberry Tiramisu (for dessert):


The Estonian High School Students' Graduation Trip
This student had just mixed together a bottle of rum and coke for the bus (those are his teachers behind him):


This was the student who was left behind:






On the train to Tarnow:




Tarnow:


Ethnographic Museum (of the Roma):












Tarnow Rynek and street scenes:










Memorial to the first prisoners taken to Auschwitz:


The former Jewish bathhouse:


Storm clouds:


Anti-Semitic graffiti:


Dinner at Wesele:


Auschwitz-Birkenau:










Items stolen from victims:










Paintings by former prisoners depicting daily life in Auschwitz:













The so-called "Little White House" (the gas chamber and Crematorium I in Auschwitz):










Roma Pavillion:




Birkenau
Quarantine Barracks:




The Women's Camp:




The Extermination Area:
Where the ashes were dumped:


Ruins of Crematorium II:


Ruins of the Undressing Room:


Ruins of the Gas Chamber:


Ruins of Crematorium V:


The Sauna (where new prisoners were inducted into the camp):


Dinner (at U Babici Maliny):


Day trip to Zakopane:
Horse Carts to Morski Oko
















The Lodge at Morski Oko:












The Lake:




























Heading back to Zakopane:


Zakopane street scenes:









Late afternoon snack:




Sign for the Jewish Festival in Krakow:


Walking tour of Kazimierz synagogues:






Lunch in Kazimierz:


Wawel Castle:




















Caught without an umbrella:




Farewell Dinner at Szara Kazimierz:






Last breakfast at the hostel: