Book Description: Like most cities, Poland's Kraków developed around and because of its favorable geography. Before Warsaw, Kraków served as Poland's capital for half a millennium. It has functioned ...

Plan it right, and you leave Poland with a deeper understanding of history, its victims, and your own responsibility as a witness.

KRAKOW, Poland — The notes of the trumpeter high in a famed belfry tumble down, followed by a portentous silence. The notes, briefly, float once more. To most of those dining, shopping, or strolling ...

Kraków's grand square, Wawel Castle, communist-era Nowa Huta; sobering Auschwitz-Birkenau. In Kraków, we linger on one of Europe's most crowd-pleasing squares, marvel at past glories in art galleries ...

Krakow used to be a mecca for Poland’s Jews, a center of cosmopolitanism and Jewish life in what was Europe’s most heavily Jewish country. Now that there are few Jews left in Poland, Krakow still ...

There’s much more to Krakow’s Jewish history than is depicted in Holocaust films. Indeed, when the city’s Tempel Synagogue was being built between 1860 and 1862, Jewish life already had been thriving ...