Travels in Galicia: October 2012

The story (so far)

I created this blog to recount a fantastic journey I recently undertook with my father, to visit our family's place of origin. My grandfather, Joseph Schechter, was born in a small village in a province of the Austro-Hungarian empire known as Galicia. This area is now divided between Poland and Ukraine. In October, 2010, my father and I traveled to the city of L'viv in order to find this village, and learn a little bit about the lives of Jews here prior to World War II. I took multiple photographs, and kept a journal (handmade by Kristen Crane). What you'll see here are transcriptions of my journal entries.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Amazing photos of Nazi-occupied Poland

I have not posted in a long while. However, I did just come across this set of photos:
http://life.time.com/history/world-war-ii-color-photos-from-nazi-occupied-poland-1939-1940/?iid=lb-gal-viewagn#1

They are from Kutno, Poland, during the Nazi occupation, and a few from Warsaw. These caught my interest because my paternal grandmother's family came from Kutno, although thankfully they emigrated long before the war.