[Leica] IMG: Kielce

[Nathan Wajsman]

Kielce is a rather sleepy town of 200,000 people almost midway between Warsaw and Kraków. It is most famous, or rather infamous, for a pogrom on Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in 1946 which killed about 40 people. That nasty history is acknowledged today. But besides, Kielce is a pleasant enough town. It is not a place visited by tourists from abroad; such visitors go to Warsaw or the other big cities like Kraków, Wrocław or Gdańsk. The only places I saw signs in English or German were the central train station and the bus station. Otherwise, the only foreign language I heard in the street was Ukrainian, a reflection of the huge number of Ukrainian refugees in Poland.

In late September I made my third visit to Kielce; as on the other two occasions I was there to speak at a weeklong event on intellectual property arranged by the local technical university in a nearby village called Cedzyna. During this trip, I saw some of the same places as last year, but also many new spots, including (surprisingly) the bus station, a great example of Communist-era architecture which was actually quite good—perhaps because architecture was an easier outlet for creative people than writing or music, since there was less for censors to spot “deviant” tendencies.

So, 50 photos from Kielce and surroundings are here:

https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Kielce-September-2025

As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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