The Old Town of Lublin (5,101 km)

(2022-05-23/25) We leave Slovakia and continue to Poland. In Lublin we take an extended walk through the famous historical Old Town. Jews lived here since the 14th century and therefore Lublin was an important center of Judaism before World War Two. Nothing is left of it, unless you look very closely.

I suppose you think that now that we have left Bukovina for a few days, the tourist program will start and we will travel only "just for fun"? No more connection with Ukraine or Czernowitz? No, it's not like that, see for yourselves.

Ukraine: More than half of the cars of the upper middle class in the underground garage of the apartment building in Lublin, where I live, come from Ukraine. War refugees, no question, but privileged ones. Across the street is the Ukrainian consulate, guarded around the clock by police forces. You can guess who they have to protect it from. "We thank our Polish brothers and sisters for their solidarity with Ukraine." we read on the banderole at the fence.

Czernowitz: In close proximity to Lublin is the former Concentration and Extermination Camp of Majdanek, and from here a trail leads to Czernowitz, as I tried to prove in my 2013 post "The Genesis of Paul Celan's 'Todesfuge'?".

Read more: http://hauster.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-genesis-of-paul-celans-todesfuge.html