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Schindler's List tours and travel diaries
Schindler’s List (1993), which was shot partly in historic sites in and around Cracow and partly on a set constructed nearby, now provides the framework for Jewish heritage and Holocaust tourism in Cracow. These tours vary from year to year and links to websites featuring them are often shortlived. Schindler’s List tours offer a rich site for exploring the larger topic of heritage and Holocaust tourism in Europe in relation to a variety of media—books, films, organized and self-guided tours, artists’ projects.
Organized tours
Jagiellonian University, Summer Program’s Schindler's List Tour, American Institute for Foreign Study, 2003. Poland is no longer included in their offerings.
- Part I: Tour of locations where Schindler's List was shot
"You will recognize many scenes from Spielberg's movie, including the courtyard at ul. Jozefa where Spielberg filmed the scene of expulsion which preceded the removal of the Kraków Jewish population from Kazimierz to the Ghetto in Podgórze on the other side of the River Vistula. Visit Oskar Schindler's factory, today the "Telepod" electronics factory and walk up the staircase that led to Schindler's office. Also, visit the actual camp built for the movie for which Allan Starski was awarded an Oscar…." - Part II: Meeting a Holocaust Survivor
"Auschwitz and Kraków Ghetto survivor Bernard Offen was one of Spielberg's advisors during the making of Schindler's List. You will watch Bernard's three documentary films before meeting him. You should also read Keneally's novel Schindler's List, and watch Spielberg's movie before coming to Kraków…". - Part III: Tea and Polish Conversation at "Alef’s”
"Step back in time and immerse yourself in pre-war Kazimierz. Situated in the middle of ancient Szeroka square, Alef has managed to recreate the feeling of days gone by, through original pre-war décor, turn-of-the-century antiques, and carefully selected Jewish klezmer music. Stephen Spielberg frequented this café during the making of Schindler's List."
Jarden, a Polish travel agency in Cracow specializing in Jewish tours—good example of how a movie structures the relevance of destinations. Take the tour or Their bookshop buy the Schindler's List Guidebook in their bookstore and tour on your own.
http://www.jarden.pl/
http://www.gonomad.com/destinations/0105/moser_krakow.html
GROMADA Polish Tourist Cooperative integrates the Schindler's List tour into "The Treasures of Jewish Culture in Poland " itinerary.
http://www.gromada.pl/languages/en/programs/trejew.php
abc.KRAKÓW offers a Schindler's List tour, "find magic and secret places...."
"The starting point for our Schindler/Keneally/Spielberg-inspired walking tour of Cracow courtyard at ul. Józefa 12 in Kazimierz. On March 21, 1941 the SS moved the entire Jewish community of Cracow over the Powstanców Slaskich bridge into the cluster of 329 buildings that stood then at Plac Bohaterów Getta in Podgórze. Here you'll find the Pharmacy Under the Eagles. Traces of the ghetto wall are still visible in a scrappy former school playground between ul. Lwowska 25 and 29, and at ul. Boleslawa Limanowskiego 62. Head back down to the street and continue straight on until you find the corner of ul. Limanowskiego and ul. Józefinska. Follow the path past the monument to God the Father take the path uphill past the derelict Podgórze cemetery. Eventually you will come upon an Austro-Hungarian fort. Walk around it until you find the street tableau in memory of the little girl who inspired Oskar Schindler to acts of altruistic courage. On his arrival in Cracow, Schindler lived upstairs at ul. Straszewskiego 7. The Schindler factory and later his living quarters were in Podgórze and still stand at ul. Lipowa 4, now the Telpod electronics factory. Haggle with the guard (usually about 5zł) for a look inside. And what of the man Kenneally described as Oskar's evil twin, Untersturmführer Amon Goeth? His villa is the only remaining edifice of the Plaszów concentration camp and stands, with terrible irony, on ul. Jerozolimska (Jerusalem street). Prior to the concentration camp, the surrounding grasslands were the site of a Jewish cemetery. As for Goeth's villa, it has changed hands several times since World War II. Local gossip has it that in the wake of Schindler's List one Capitalist owner considered opening the villa as a restaurant, hotel or casino. Let's sincerely hope not."
http://www.abc.krakow.pl/amazing.htm#SCHINDLER
OLD JEWISH DISTRICT AND RETRACING "SCHINDLER'S LIST,"ca. 3 hrs.
"This tour leads us into the south-east district of Krakow--KAZIMIERZ--that was originally founded as a separate town near Kraków where, since 14th century Jews had the right to settle down. Szeroka street is a remnant of the former market square with Old Synagogue, Isaac's Synagogue and Remuh Sunagogue. You will also visit PODGÓRZE district - where ghetto was established; Schindler's factory and PŁASZÓW - where labour camp used to be situated.
http://www.point.travel.pl/e/ind_kra.html
THE TRACES OF JEWISH CULTURE IN CRACOW. Itinerary organized by Mazurkas Travel for a conference, HTAi 2004: Health Technology Assessment International. in Cracow.
"The tour of Kazimierz takes you to the most important monuments in this area. First you see the sites which Steven Spielberg used for his location shots of the Oscar winning "Schindler's List". Then you visit the most precious monuments of the Jewish culture in Cracow: the Old Synagogue (now the Jewish Department of the Historical Museum of the City of Cracow), the Remuh Synagogue and the Remuh Cemetery. Itinerary: Bohaterow Getta Sq.-Plaszow (former Nazi Concentration Camp)-the Old Synagogue-Wolnica Sq."
http://www.htai2004.pconcept.com/sub_tours.php
Travel Diaries
"Schindler's List." Maps the book and film onto present-day Kazimierz, with photographs.
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/poland/Kazimierz/Kazimierz01.html
Rudy Brueggemann"A Trip to the Camps" (June 2001).
http://www.rudyfoto.com/hol/campstory.html
http://landmanatee.ods.org/~ellenanddick/
Kazimierz: http://landmanatee.ods.org/~ellenanddick/Kazimierz-Krakow/index.html
Further Reading
Schindler's List
http://hdl.handle.net/1964/188
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