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Tour of Krakow
Guided tour of Krakow, the first European city included in the UNESCO list of the most precious places of the world. Krakow is the city of humanism, whose sites capture the essence of Polish history and where the world’s greatest sculptor of the Gothic, Veit Stoss lived and worked for nearly 20 years. Our tour will take us to the Wawel Royal Castle with priceless Flemish tapestries that present the Renaissance north-European art at its height and to the Wawel Cathedral, where Poland’s kings were once crowned. Continue to Kazimierz district - that part of Krakow which was till the WW II inhabited by the Jews, and could serve as a model of Jewish life in the Diaspora. Drive into the labyrinth of streets and alleyways - where else in the Diaspora where streets named after figures from the Old Testament - Jacob, Isaac, Joseph. Visit the famous Remuh Synagogue, named after the great Cracovian rabbi and scholar Moses Isserles, and the museum of the Jewish life in Cracow at the Old Synagogue. Visit the newly opened museum located in the former Oscar Schindler’s Factory. The main exhibition “Krakow Under Nazi Occupation, 1939-1945” shows the dramatic choice that people made. Key phases of the period come in for special attention, including notorious Sonderaktionof November 1939 (during which 183 people were arrested, most of the university professors), as well as the creation and liquidation of the Jewish Ghetto. “Krakow Under Nazi Occupation: 1939-1945" showcase life during the war for Poles and Jews, concentrating at least some of its narrative on the disruption of Polish-Jewish relations against the backdrop of Nazi brutality. The atmosphere of the era is evoked by recreations of typical Cracovian interiors and street scenes. At the same time it presents the history of Krakow Jews and the tragedy of Jewish community being a part of the tragedy of the rest of the population.