Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for another glimpse into ordinary everyday Polish life, Nathan. It helps complement what my wife (n?e Wondolowski) saw in our first brief contact with your ancestral country and hers, a port call at Gdansk on our Baltic cruise. And Hammond?! Love that. ?howard > On Sep 24, 2022, at 3:51 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > > Kielce is a city of about 200,000 inhabitants in eastern Poland, about 130 > km north-east of Krak?w. I spent a couple of days there this week because > I was participating in a conference on IP rights, organised by the former > head of the Polish Patent Office, now a professor at the Technical > University of Kielce. I arrived there Sunday mid-day and departed Tuesday > afternoon. Most of the pictures were taken during a walkabout in the town > on Sunday afternoon. > > Kielce is a rather nondescript place. It is much smaller than the other > Polish cities I usually visit?Warsaw, Krak?w, Wroc?aw?and this was my > first ever visit there. The town is known, or notorious, for a terrible > event in 1946, a pogrom of about 40 Jews who survived the Holocaust and > came back to reclaim their homes in Kielce, only to be met with deadly > hostility. This episode is a black spot on the history of Kielce and > indeed of Poland. But still, the man who picked me up at Krak?w airport, > drove me the 130 km to the hotel in Kielce, and spent his entire Sunday > afternoon showing me around was not even born when these terrible > happenings took place, and yet he was clearly ashamed on behalf of his > town. I did not sense the kind of civic pride that one might expect from > someone who was born in and has lived his whole life in the same town. > > So here is a gallery showing Kielce as I saw it. Not pretty, but not > horrible either. And the past is being acknowledged. As I sometimes say, > this part of Europe has too much history. > > https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Kielce/ > <https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Kielce/> > > As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information