Travel to Poland, Krakow.

Krakow is a lot prettier than I gave it credit. Although, I think I am a bit biased because we went to the older part of town which, like I have said, is always prettier. We saw many beautiful churches and went up to the Wawel Castle. It had a beautiful view of the city and was very interesting to look at because you could see the different architecture that was added throughout the different centuries. The church that was in the castle was one of the prettiest churches I have ever seen; it had amazing stain class windows that were from the 24th century. After the church we went into a museum that represented what one of the homes/ office areas of one of the king’s officials looked like. There were many beautiful tapestries hanging on the wall that were many years old.

Walking round the Jewish Quarter was really interesting because it did not look like all of the other Jewish areas we had been to. All of the others had become big name shopping centers whereas this one was still apartment buildings and still had an older, almost rundown feeling that I had been expecting when we
002visited the other areas. It was cool to see the areas where part of the movie Schindler’s List was filmed. We then crossed the river and went to the area where the ghetto was and went to the Schindler Museum. The museum was a nice change because we got to hear about some of the good that was going on at that time and be reminded that there were people that tried to help the Jews. Being in his office, it was comforting to know that 60 years ago good things were taking place and help was being done rather than hurt and awful things. One of my favorite things at the museum was walking into the area in the office that was a circle area with all of the names of the people that he had helped. Rather than it being names of people that were murdered, it was a celebration of the lives that were helped and saved. Today was a nice change of scenery after all of the death camps and was a much appreciated break before Auschwitz.

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