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<\/p>\nReminiscences 2024<\/p>\n
Carolyn joined me at the end of the Cold War trip, and we did our own visits. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n colonials in the American Revolution (and in insurrections to free Poland) is buried there, too.\u00a0 The Jewish sites were pretty depressing because in Krakow for example, there were only about 150 Jews left.\u00a0 Only 10% survived the Reminiscences 2024 Carolyn joined me at the end of the Cold War trip, and we did our own visits. We visited sights in Budapest, then left for Prague and Krakow.\u00a0 Prague was interesting as a city left alone by the Nazis, who gathered artefacts from Jewish communities (as they were being destroyed) to create a … Continue reading “Fred and Carolyn in Prague and Krakow”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-may-2002-fred-and-carolyn-to-krakow-and-prague"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4753"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9264,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions\/9264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2002\/05\/IMG01292.jpg\")
<\/a>We visited sights in Budapest, then left for Prague and Krakow.\u00a0 Prague was interesting as a city left alone by the Nazis, who gathered artefacts from Jewish communities (as they were being destroyed) to create a “museum.” Krakow, capital of Poland in the 16th century, also had much of its historical buildings intact.\u00a0 Especially impressive was Wawel Castle, home and burial\u00a0![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2002\/05\/IMG00973.jpg\")
<\/a>place of kings and famous Poles.\u00a0 Kosciusko who fought alongside<\/p>\n<\/a> H<\/a>olocaust.\u00a0 The cemetery in Prague had many headstones, but the list of the murdered in World War II in one synagogue was a memorial to the dead.<\/p>\n<\/a>In Budapest, we might have stayed at the Gellert, an art deco hotel from 1918 that incorporated Turkish era baths, which were a feature of the Turkish culture, aided by hot springs in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"