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Sightseeing in Krakow Rynek Glowny market and meeting place Sukkienice Rynek's Renaissance building Church of Mary symbol of town Planty the green belt of Krakow Wawel where kings and queens resided Kazimierz the Jewish quarter		Kasimierz In the year 1335 King Kazimierz III had a ghetto errected for the jews, outside the city walls. Around 1495, the jews of Krakow were being forced to settle down in that newly built part of town, named "Kasimierz". Among the few monuments preserved are the Old Synagogue, which was built in 1570 in renaissance style, and the cemetery R'emuh with more than 450 graves from the 16th, 17th and 18th century. It is one of the two remaining Jewish renaissance style cemeteries in Europe. The other one is in Prague. In 1940 the Nazis turned into one of the largest ghettos in Poland. Very few of the inhabitants survived in years of hunger and deprivation. Only a few miles off Krakow the Germans built the concentration camp Auschwitz, and the " camp for extinguishment" Birkenau where more than 1.5 million people were murderd by gas. Oskar Schindler (featured in Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List") lived in Krakow. He saved the lifes of some hundred jews by employing them in his plant. Tomb stones in Kazimierz

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