After scrolling through your posts on Poland and Warsaw, May I suggest that you add 1 or 2 items to your lists of must-see there? In order to have some perspective on the impact of World War II on Poland, it is worth going to one of the newest, most sophisticated, and fascinating museum, Polin. This is the museum that explores the thousand plus years of Poland and its Jews. Jews were the largest minority in Poland and the museum delves into culture, academic, business, and political interactions among the Polish majority Christians and the minority Jews. There is a rich trove of documents and art materials to show this history. It is an absorbing visit if you can go yourself.
I mention this to you because your lists ONLY include Auschwitz which means that the only POV you give is of dead Jews. There is no context of the LIVING Jews over the millennium of their living in Poland. Many cities and even the smallest towns were 1/3 to over 1/2 Jewish.
You are hardly alone in only thinking of Auschwitz when it comes to Jews in Poland. The museum Polin will fill that huge gap in people’s understanding of Poland. When I visited there some months ago, most of the visitors were non Jewish Poles. I believe that anyone interested in Poland would enjoy visiting Polin museum.
The other thing I would recommend is also in Warsaw. A tour of the area of the Warsaw Ghetto and the sites important to the preceding Warsaw uprising in 1943 of the Jews. Again, this is something that the non Jewish Poles knew about and had in mind as they planned their 1944 uprising so it is worthwhile to learn about BOTH.
After scrolling through your posts on Poland and Warsaw, May I suggest that you add 1 or 2 items to your lists of must-see there? In order to have some perspective on the impact of World War II on Poland, it is worth going to one of the newest, most sophisticated, and fascinating museum, Polin. This is the museum that explores the thousand plus years of Poland and its Jews. Jews were the largest minority in Poland and the museum delves into culture, academic, business, and political interactions among the Polish majority Christians and the minority Jews. There is a rich trove of documents and art materials to show this history. It is an absorbing visit if you can go yourself.
I mention this to you because your lists ONLY include Auschwitz which means that the only POV you give is of dead Jews. There is no context of the LIVING Jews over the millennium of their living in Poland. Many cities and even the smallest towns were 1/3 to over 1/2 Jewish.
You are hardly alone in only thinking of Auschwitz when it comes to Jews in Poland. The museum Polin will fill that huge gap in people’s understanding of Poland. When I visited there some months ago, most of the visitors were non Jewish Poles. I believe that anyone interested in Poland would enjoy visiting Polin museum.
The other thing I would recommend is also in Warsaw. A tour of the area of the Warsaw Ghetto and the sites important to the preceding Warsaw uprising in 1943 of the Jews. Again, this is something that the non Jewish Poles knew about and had in mind as they planned their 1944 uprising so it is worthwhile to learn about BOTH.