On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 2:48 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kielce is a city of about 200,000 inhabitants in eastern Poland, about 130
> km north-east of Kraków. I spent a couple of days there this week because I
> was participating in a conference on IP rights, organised by the former
> head of the Polish Patent Office, now a professor at the Technical
> University of Kielce. I arrived there Sunday mid-day and departed Tuesday
> afternoon. Most of the pictures were taken during a walkabout in the town
> on Sunday afternoon.
>
> Kielce is a rather nondescript place. It is much smaller than the other
> Polish cities I usually visit—Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław—and this was my first
> ever visit there. The town is known, or notorious, for a terrible event in
> 1946, a pogrom of about 40 Jews who survived the Holocaust and came back to
> reclaim their homes in Kielce, only to be met with deadly hostility. This
> episode is a black spot on the history of Kielce and indeed of Poland. But
> still, the man who picked me up at Kraków airport, drove me the 130 km to
> the hotel in Kielce, and spent his entire Sunday afternoon showing me
> around was not even born when these terrible happenings took place, and yet
> he was clearly ashamed on behalf of his town. I did not sense the kind of
> civic pride that one might expect from someone who was born in and has
> lived his whole life in the same town.
>
> So here is a gallery showing Kielce as I saw it. Not pretty, but not
> horrible either. And the past is being acknowledged. As I sometimes say,
> this part of Europe has too much history.
>
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Kielce/ <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Kielce/>
>
Enjoyable tour, Nathan. The light wasn't perfect for everything, perhaps,
but it was very good for many things and you captured them all well.
Joel W.
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