The picture of young Jewish children walking into Wolnica Square from Ulica Boziego Ciala was taken sometime in the 1930s, which leads me to wonder what happened to them 10 years later. It is possible that they managed to emigrate to America or Britain; if my memory is correct, some 60,000 came to Britain with a smaller number going to America. But, since over 6 million died in the holocaust it is much more likely - perhaps up to 100 times more likely - that they died in Auschwitz or similar. For those who came on the exploration through Kazimierz on the Saturday, this is the gateway to the Basilica, which is the church right by the cafe where we drank coffee, next to Wolnica Square (which is where I shot the photo of the two elderly gentlemen)
Past the Basilica we came on the crossing of Ulica Bodego Ciala and Ulica Josefa; if you remember, there was an artist with an easel painting on one of the corners. The pictures to right and below are of the same scene, although my picture is taken at too acute an angle to make the comparison immediately obvious. Nevertheless, both show the same building, but the one taken in 1914 shows that this was in the heart of the Jewish quarter.
