Grafitti in Krakow, some miles from Auschwitz, Poland

Comments are welcome

I suppose you want to say with this picture (and the title) that polish people continue to be antisemits and so on....

I don't know your experiences. I have visited many countries and found foolish and good peuple all around the world.

The history is very much complicated that the picture wants to show.

I wouldn't like to see any anti... - not only -semitic, but even (why not) ...polish and so on pictures, titles...

You have to live somewhere for a longer time to know what is all this about.

What do you have certainty that this Polish man painted? Many persons arrive to Cracow from whole world. This what you do then manipulation because title steers. You stick the occupants of Poland the label of anti-Semitism. Unattractively :(

I would never say that any people are anti-semitic, as Miroslaw states, there are good persons and not so good persons in all peoples all around the world. And as Cristopher points out... who says that this grafitti was made by a Pole.

But off course... I was in a state of chock having visited the Auschwitz - Birkenau death-camps for a week and then finding this on the wall, and could not help making a picture.

 

 

-bjorn

I would have shot frontly. Giving it the title: Indeed, one day the nation will shine brightly..!

The point I'm seeing is that the geographical juxtaposition is just too horrendous to overlook. What's more, the visual economy of the image implies to me a level of artistry and intelligence that makes the image even more shocking.

There are some similarly evocative photos here at photo.net by Geert Vanden Wijngaert:
Bunia airport
Goma airport
Congolese children

Bjorn, I don't know who made this Grafitty, but it is a fact that the world did not learn much from the holocaust.We are a group of PN\ers that just fought with a photographer here, that uploaded 2 anti Semitic photos from Warsaw streets. after many comments on the subject, he took them, at last down. It is important to show these and other photos of atrocities and prejudice, anti-semitic and others. To show that hate is ruining many human life.

 

It looks like a hanging rope of the Star of David, and the diagonal angle brings more tention to the image. Thanks for uploading it.

Bjorn, In a way we are still living in the Dark Ages with all this hatred. I have a close friend whose grandfather was saved by Oscar Schindler z"l; he came from Krakow. I spent a month in Krakow and saw that the old ghetto walls had been built with desecrated graves of Jewish scholars. Three million Polish Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. This photograph is meant, I suppose, to show the world that ugliness is still extant everywhere against so many groups of people. Instead of jumping to defend one country or the other in an almost knee jerk way, why don't we expose this poison (like you did with this photo) and work to get rid of it, make all anti-life comments unpopular, until the people infected by hate realize that they are standing alone, that they must search their souls. Even after the War, in 1947, Jews were attacked and murdered in a pogrom in Kielce, Poland, and attacked and murdered again in 1967 and 1968, so they had to flee for their lives. It's a sickness. I'm sorry that you didn't simply go to the store, buy some white paint, and remove this stain from the world.