Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Kielce railway station, Poland


A 1970s view after completion of construction, with an ubiquitous communist slogan along the awning.  The rounded shape of the small blue buses makes them rather cute, unlike the normal square look.

Kielce is unfortunately best known for an anti-Semitic pogrom against 200 holocaust survivors on 4 July 1946 in which 42 of them were killed and a similar number injured. Although Poles will deny it, anti-Semitism was just as prevalent in Poland in the 1930s as it was in Germany.

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