We returned to Krakow for a guided tour round the Oskar Schindler Factory Museum. The Museum gives a fascinated explanation of Krakow from the outbreak of the war through to 1945, the treatment of its people and especially the 25% who were Jewish. Its use of visual material and artefacts is very full and excellently done. Our guide was a little difficult to follow as the spaces were cramped, and we found some of her speech hard to hear.
The Schindler material is a significant but in fact small part of what is shown. The use of German orders and the tableaux of home and work scenes brought home very powerfully the impact of war-time occupation, and the narrow border between life and death.
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