[Leica] IMG: Kielce

[Ric Carter]

Love the tree table. Two chairs and a table sharing legs.

Ric




> On Oct 4, 2025, at 11:40 AM, Nathan Wajsman via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> So, 50 photos from Kielce and surroundings are here:
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Kielce-September-2025
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> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
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> Nathan
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