Krakow ghetto

[Broadsword255]

I really enjoyed my short stay in Krakow. Went to this area too, and visited the chemist (Eagle)on the corner which is now a museum. I think every one knows the Chemist helped the jews as much as he could.

[ZeppyLike]

my class traveled to Krakow with The White Busses for about two weeks ago. were are 15 years old, and when we were there, one student was punched in the face 3 times by 3 drunk poles. does anyone know about someone who got arrested or something? I think it was monday or tuesday night last week it happened.

[RLTinsane]

why would ANYONE want to live there?!

[alanheath]

@RLTinsane It may once have been a ghetto but life moves on and the housing there today is perfectly acceptable. See my video on the former ghetto in Lowicz (Łowicz) - it looks today a very pleasant place to live.

[stokraft]

ALLLAAAAAANNNNN ZROBIMY DOBRY FILM...

[EggheadOfTheFuture]

Hi, I'm planning on visiting the city in August. As a History enthusiast, I feel it's an essential place to visit. I don't want a stone unturned when I go, so have you got any advice for me on what to see and do?

[alanheath]

@EggheadOfTheFuture There is stacks of stuff to see and do. Have a look at my videos from Kraków although there is still a lot I have not filmed!

[MrHipis7]

Jebac wisle

[symun2121]

cracovia żydki!

[jebus0000000]

So many Poles have risked their lives to save Jews during world war 2 letting them stay in their atticks while the Nazis were out to kill them . What kind of grattitude do we get? American Jews hold more hostillity towards Poles than they do towards Germans!

[alanheath]

@jebus0000000 I think that to a large extent is due to certain characters claiming to represent Poles in the US. The former head of one Chicago organisation springs to mind...

[arthurflorida]

@alanheathWhat do you know something about POLISH history small scam bag ? Have your elementary base level teacher / Nannie advised u that POLAND has been under nasisst/German occupation 1939/1945 ???

[kolkrabe19]

@jebus0000000 Jews are hostile to anyone that isn´t a jew.

[trzcinarowice]

@jebus0000000 There were good Poles and bad Poles. That's life.

[stokraft]

@jebus0000000 NA TYM FILMIE JEST MOJ STARY SAMOCHOD



[arthurflorida]

@alanheathWhat do you know something about POLISH history small scam bag ? Have your elementary base level teacher / Nannie advised u that POLAND has been under nasisst/German occupation 1939/1945 ???

[BlackCountryPuddler]

What a hammering Poland took from the Germans.

[syd2015]

I was living at ul.Rekawka in 60's and 70's .. the wall is definately genuine and I think this is the only part of the Ghetto Wall which is left.

As to the chairs at Plac Bohaterow Getta, they are symbolising pieces of furniture left by Cracow Jewish Community upon being deported to Belzec

[jaHOOLIGANS1]

hahhahaah moj plac bochaterow getta ale jaja no i blok na juzefinskiej

[alanheath]

I have photographs from Belsen but no film. I do not know when or if I will be in the area again.

[philpotno7]

hi alan,just wondering have you ever been to terezin in the czech republic

[alanheath]

I have - and I have some footage which I have never posted ... forgot about it!!

[philpotno7]

thanks alan,i am going back to krakow in 2 weeks and will take this way that you have captured as my route inside the ghetto

[hamsterbommel]

part 2:

At the former camp you can find the ruins of the latrines and graves. It is no museum, children play there, the nature is really beauty and nowhere I felt that closed to history like at Plaszow. Have you been there too?

[alanheath]

I have been to Plaszów but I did not post the film here. Might get round to it - there is a bit of a back log!

Thanks for your comments!!

[hamsterbommel]

Thank you for this video. Some years ago i spent some time in Krakow and wrote a study work about the Plaszow-Camp. For me it was the most impressive think, that the most thinks were like that as when it happend for instance in Podgorze. Often I went through the streets and looked into the small and dark houses and tried to imagine, how people lived there.

[flute4hire]

Well done Alan your work is comendable.

[alanheath]

Thank you - I do my best!

[EggheadOfTheFuture]

Great video. Amazing to see normal, everyday life with people and cars when you consider what happened there.

[ray5426mary]

Well worth listening to

[m2moore]

also remember the film was filmed in Kazimierz rather than in Podgorze so some misrepresentation is definitely possible

[alanheath]

I just put up film from the heights above Podgorze and you can see that it is perfectly possible that Schindler looked down from there.

Spielburg got an incredible amount of little details correct in Schindler's List which amazes me compared to what one normally gets out of Hollywood!!

[pinogga]

Dobry akcent ;-)

[bandido12002]

Alan I was told that the chairs on the square represent the peoples posessions not the people.

[alanheath]

Could well be - that is quite logical!

[Normanskie]

It amazes me that locals can tell a Macken a mile away.

[KevMull]

TIP: Don't walk and shoot at the same time or pan too much as it makes viewing vey naucious!

[Bolobilek]

Trzęsie się obraz.

[alanheath]

Chodzę z aparatem.

[Bolobilek]

Widać to. Podziwiam upór z językiem angielskim.

[alanheath]

Pochodzę z Wielki Brytani.

[helenvon]

i didn't expect to hear a durham accent when i clicked this video!

i was in podgórze the other day.

[alanheath]

Who has got a Durham accent in this film? It must be one of the local Krakovians!

[helenvon]

you have! yes i certainly noticed a familiar durham twang when i was there!

[alanheath]

That is correct - I am from County Durham!!

[helenvon]

ditto!

[DavidGarswood]

For anybody visiting Krakow, and wanting to see the area of the ghetto, I suggest that you get yourself a map of the former ghetto area and head into the ghetto are, in Podgorze,over rhe Marshal Pidsulski bridge, where a few hundred yards ahead, if you head towards the church, leads to Rynek Podgorski. Then head east up former ghetto streets, ending up at the former Plac Zgody, where the ghetto museum is. Doesn't take long and Schindler's factory is close by to the east.

[alanheath]

Very useful information for visitors to Kraków!

[DavidGarswood]

Alan, I really like your video's.

Having walked the ghetto area myself, I find it quite an erie place, especially when you are in Plac Zgody and think about what happened there. I'm going again in September, and I am going to pay particular attention to the story of the cripple and the blind man, who were herded out of Number 3 Plac Zgody, in an aktion. They were mocked, beaten, and used for fun for the SS. Pankiewiecz recorded the story, having watched it from the window of his pharmacy.

[VideoHistoryToday]

The Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow sells a really good map showing the various boundaries of the ghetto and key locations. And if you do visit Podgorze, Oskar Schidler's factory isn't too far away (under the railway line to the east if I recall correctly - I asked at a local news stand).

[jewishdirectorsrock]

Thanks so much for putting this on here. It's very hard to find videos like this on youtube. It seems like when ever I type in "Ghetto" I always get something about "Me and my homeys in my ghetto crib" which is furstrating for me because I'm doing research for a short film I'm making. Thanks again!

[alanheath]

I have a lot of material on this subject on my channel - enough to keep you watching for some time!!

[jewishdirectorsrock]

Thanks I'll check that out. Lord knows, I need all the help I can get!

[klaudio73]

Very intresting video .Thank You.

[Number7smokesForEver]

What was the name of the Polish chemist?

[DavidGarswood]

Tadeusz Pankiewiecz. He died in Krakow, in 1993, and is buried in the main cemetery in Krakow.

[Number7smokesForEver]

Thanks.

[amberlondon66]

Thank you for your post, I have wanted to visit Krakow and still haven't, your film has brought the facts that I already know alive for me, to actually be able to see the place, as it is today, has been most informative :-)

[Joulupukki10]

I really would like to go see some poland

[alanheath]

65 years ago the Krakow ghetto was liquidated - as shown in the film Schindler's List.

[rickam77ab]

eii man i was in krakow last year and i liked. i love all history about 2nd War World. And i went to Auschwitz near from this city 1 1/2 hour more or less. thanks for this video.

[bigjetski]

when i went to Polska last year, i've walked through the ghetto and didn't even notice I was in it.

[alanheath]

In all honesty there is no reason to notice but it is a bit off the tourist areas.

[zworazwora]

Cracow - one of the best city in the world

[giraffegirl93]

what do you mean he saved around 500 people? he saved over 1200!!!!

[alanheath]

He saved over 1,200 people of which around 500 were still alive at the end of the war.

[Number7smokesForEver]

How did the other 700 die? Did they die at Auschwitz? Apparently quite a few of the people on the list were children but according to a book I read anyone under the age of 15 was usually gassed upon arrival at Auschwitz.

[alanheath]

I assume that most would have ended up at Auschwitz but I do not really know.

[kishgoldsmith]

thanks for the video, long live america, long live israel,love india.

[riverfenix182]

I'm reading the book right now, thanks for bringing the places to life.

[TrojanTM]

Very interesting 5*.

[dubhouseu]

pleasure. to all those who are watchin this. visit krakow, visit auschwitz. it will change your life. its history that will humble you and yet make u feel alive. its our responsibility to educate and remember.

[dubhouseu]

big props for a great vid alan. went there november last year. beautiful city, wonderful peop;e, hope one day to go back! brought back memories!! thnx

[alanheath]

Thank you for your very nice comments!!

[d12south]

man u almost got hit by that truck

[alanheath]

Yes, it does look that way. Although I was on the pavement...