Kazimierz Dolny is a charming resort town on the Vistula River south of Warsaw. Its two Jewish cemeteries were destroyed during World War II. In the 1980s, fragments of tombstones were gathered together and used to create a very striking Holocaust memorial at the site of one of the cemeteries — it is in the form of a wall split by a huge jagged crack .
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