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#krkw-1: A workers' demonstration in Krakow in July 1936. Members of the Freiheit and Po'alei Zion movements took part in the demonstration. In the photo: Avraham "Laban" Leibowicz (lower right foreground, with armband), keeping order among the marchers.	#krkw-2: Krakow, beside the Gruenwald monument. In the photo: Avraham "Laban" Leibowicz (center), with Avraham Zdranowski and Aharon Schmutzer. Photographed in 1937.	#krkw-3: Members of a local chapter of the Freiheit youth movement in Krakow. Those seated in the front row hold a banner, on which is written in Hebrew: Dror in Western Galicia - Krakow. In the photo: Adek Golowner

#krkw-4: A camp of the Freiheit youth movement near Krakow, March, 1938.	#krkw-5: Aharon - Dolek and Rivka Sniper - Liebeskind, of the Akiva Zionist youth movement, with their parents and Aharon's sister Krakow, 1940	#krkw-6: The poet Chaim - Nachman Bialik during a visit to Krakow.

#krkw-7: Ultra - Orthodox Jews in Krakow in 1931.	#krkw-8: German officers checking the documents of Jews seated in a carriage filled with their belongings, at the time when the Jews were moving into the Krakow ghetto.	#krkw-9: Wagons loaded with furniture and other objects, on their way to the Krakow ghetto. Two of the people walking beside the wagons are wearing armbands.

#krkw-10:	#krkw-11: The Cafe Cyganeria on Szpitalna Street in Krakow. This was a meeting place for Wehrmacht and Gestapo officers, and was attacked by members of Krakow's Jewish underground on December 22, 1942. Eleven Germans were killed and 13 wounded in this action.	#krkw-12: Members of the Jewish underground in the Krakow ghetto, beside underground headquarters. Photographed in 1940. These were members of the Akiva movement. In the photo: Aharon - Dolek Liebeskind (on the right), Ze'ev Mintcheles (second from the right), Rivka Szpiner - Liebeskind (third from the right), Sabina Wulkan (fourth from the right), Minka Liebeskind (fifth from the right), Chana Dreiblatt (fourth from the left), Chana - Hanka Szpricer (third from the left), Shimshon Draenger (second from the left), and Gusta Dawidson - Draenger (on the left).

#krkw-13: Jews praying beside the grave of the Rema (Rabbi Moshe Isserles) in Krakow. Photographed in 1931. The Rema was a renowned rabbi in 16th C. Krakow. A major Krakow synagogue was named for him.	#krkw-14: The town hall building in the Kazimierz quarter of Krakow. Photographed between the two world wars	#krkw-15: On a park bench in Krakow in 1927.

#krkw-16: A rabbi addressing a congregation from a pulpit in Krakow. Photographed between the two world wars	#krkw-17: Members of the soccer teamR.K.S. (Robotniczy Klub Sportowy [Polish: Workers' Sports Club]). in Krakow. The team included Jewish players. In the photo: Avraham "Laban" Leibowicz (center of the foreground trio). Leibowicz was later a member of the Akiva Zionist youth movement and the Jewish underground in Krakow.	#krkw-18: The ancient cemetery adjoining the Rema Synagogue in Krakow

#krkw-19: The "Yitzhak" synagogue in Krakow, built in the 17th century. Photographed in the late 20th C.	#krkw-20: The marketplace in the Kazimierz quarter of Krakow in 1936. In the background: the "Alte Shul" [Yiddish: Old Synagogue	#krkw-21: Jews in Krakow in the early 20th century

#krkw-22: The marketplace and town hall building in Krakow. Photographed between the two world wars	#krkw-23: A dormitory room in a boarding school of the "Beis Yaakov" network in Krakow. Photographed in 1936. The "Beis Yaakov" network of religious schools for girls was organized in post - WWI Poland by the Agudat Israel ultra - Orthodox movement.	#krkw-24: Actors and others who worked in the Jewish theater in Krakow. Many of them perished during the course of the World War.

#krkw-25: Jews in the courtyard beside the synagogue and the school for Jewish deaf - mutes in Krakow.	#krkw-26: A Chassidic dance at a camp for members of the HaShomer ha Dati youth movement in the Krakow area. The camp took place in 1933.	#krkw-27:

#krkw-28: Krakow Cemetery	#krkw-29: Krakow Cemetery	#krkw-30: Krakow Cemetery

#krkw-31: Krakow Cemetery	#krkw-32: The book; "The Fighting Chalutz" a news paper writen in the Krakow ghetto in 1943. It is the story of Zionist Jewish youth in the Krakow underground during the war.	#krkw-33: olish Aliyah Passport of Fradel Landau and children (Krakow) for more information about the Passports go to; http://www.jewishgen.org/Jri-pl/jhi/jri-jhi-aliyah-passport.htm

#krkw-34: Polish Aliyah Passport of Szaja and Estera Korn (Tymbark/Krakow)http://www.jewishgen.org/Jri-pl/jhi/jri-jhi-aliyah-passport.htm	#krkw-35: A policeman of Poland's "Blue Police" inspecting the documents of a Jew in Krakow.	#krkw-36: ews hanged on a gallows in the Podgorze quarter of Krakow

#krkw-37: German soldiers and an officer entering the Krakow ghetto.	#krkw-38: German army men who participated in a roundup of Jews in the Podgorze quarter of Krakow.	#krkw-39: A German soldier in the Krakow ghetto, standing beside the bodies of Jews laid out in a row.

#krkw-40: go to http://www.baral.com/ Steven Baral stevebaral@aol.com wrote; The photographs you are about to see were collected and edited by my Father, Mr Martin Baral. The photographs show members of the Baral, Feuer and Ehrlich Families from Cracow Poland and the vicinity, most of whom perished in the Shoah. Had it not been for the heroism of my Grandmother, Franka Baral, who saved 6 children under the most adverse circumstances, I would not be here today.	#krkw-41:	#krkw-42: The Jewish market Square on Szeroka Street from the 1930s. At the end of the square you can see the historic home of the Landau family. Allen Bergman-Toronto

#krkw-43: Sitting from Left; Dr. David Bulwa ( 1882- 1942, only his daughter Eleonora Shein survived), Chaim Hilpershtein, Prof. Hugo Bergman. Standing behind Chaim Hilpershtein; Dr. Henrik Zilbershtein and Hirsh Sharar. Picture taken from News Letter of July; http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/krakow/krkw_pdf/July_2007.pdf to read the News Letters of the Association of Cracowians in Israel (published by Lili Haber) go to the bottom of the page. For other pictures from the News Letters go to "old scenes"	#krkw-44: Memorial to the Jews of Krakow	#krkw-45: First on the left third row; Mark Patrushka ( now Meir Porat) and his mother Henka. Second row on the right; Binyamin Zentker. Please getin touch with Meir Porat if you have any information ( for more information go to Association of Cracowians in Israel - News Letters ( #20) in the bottom of the page

#krkw-46: Augusta and Adolf Gross pose with their grandchildren, Marguerite and Jan Enkels	#krkw-47: Alfred Shenker, merchant and industrialist (2nd from right on bottom), with the staff of the Pischinger, Perlberger and Shenker Company	#krkw-48: Luba and Bolestaw Drobner with their daughter Irena, and Luba's sister, Ida Hirszowicz, Krakow 1913

#krkw-49: I. Krieg, a soldier in the Polish army, and his bride on their wedding day.	#krkw-50: Members of the Krieg family 1928	#krkw-51: The Faust family in Planty Park, 1931

#krkw-52: 1908 photo of Karola Kupezyk-Kleczanska, Salomon's daughter (1889-1941).	#krkw-53: 1929, Three children of the Stern family.	#krkw-54: 1932

#krkw-55: Beit Yaakov School	#krkw-56: Rabbi Nechemia Kurnitzer	#krkw-57: Jewish children in the Krakow ghetto play violins for the cameraman, Sep 1939 - 1940. USHMM Photo Archives (18707), courtesy of Muzeum Historii Fotografii

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