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Orthodox visitors pray at the Remah Synagogue. |
| What remains of Judaism in Kazimierz in the year 2000 are a few elderly Jews, 8 synagogues, most of them gutted, a cemetery and a few buildings formerly used by the Jewish community. Each year, tens of thousands of Jews from around the world make the pilgrimage to Kazimierz to get a glimpse at what was once called;"the second Jerusalem." The truly religious come to pray at the Rema,the only synagogue presently operating | as a house of worship. It's weedy cemetery which the Germans destroyed during the war and which has been rebuilt, houses the final resting places of many of the City's greatest Jewish scholars and thinkers. It now attracts the faithful and the curious. Some come to pray and all pay tribute to the dead and to honor the fallen community. That is what drew me there. |
Remah Synagogue. The only operating synagogue in Krakow. |
Remah Cemetary. "The Wailing Wall", a wall of partially destroyed tombstones. |