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About two hundred people gathered yesterday in Podgorze for the 62nd anniversary of the liquidation of the Cracow Ghetto.
A small concert was held in front of the Apteka Pod Orlem, the chemists which was once a bastion of resistance to Nazi Policy. Jacek Majchrowski, President of Cracow, made a short and solemn speech recalling how Poles and Jews had built the city 'together'.
Poles and Jews lived side by side for some seven hundred years in Cracow before the Nazi occupation obliterated the status quo.
After the speeches, the mourners followed the historic route to the Plaszow Forced Labour Camp, which is now little more than a desolate stretch of heath on the outskirts of the city.
Prayers were said at the foot of the monument to those that had perished. Heavy winds blew, but people did their best to light candles in memory of the fallen.
| Source: NH | March.14.2005 |
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