Slide 11

The Jewish section of Krakow was once a separate royal city, Kazimierz, where the Jewish community had its center. Kazimierz was eventually absorbed into the city proper, and the quarter prospered especially between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The old Jewish cemetery, the Remuh cemetery, in the quarter and the accompanying synagogue dates to mainly the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Much of the quarter escaped destruction during the war.