EuroFedLipid Meetings: Cracow

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23-26 September 2012, Cracow, Poland

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Cracow is one of the largest and oldest cities in Poland and a popular tourist destination. Its historic centre was inscribed on the list of World Heritage Sites as the first of its kind. Situated on the Vistula river in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Cracow has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural and artistic life, and is one of Poland's most important economic centres. It was the capital of Poland from 1038 to 1596 and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Cracow from 1846 to 1918 as part of the Austro Hungarian Empire..

The Austrian rule in Cracow ended on 31 October 1918, when the Polish Liquidation Committee assumed power. With the emergence of the Second Polish Republic, Cracow restored its role as a major academic and cultural centre with the establishment of new universities It became an important cultural centre for the Polish Jews with a Zionist youth movement relatively strong among the city's Jewish population. Cracow was also an influential centre of Jewish spiritual life, with all its manifestations of religious observance from Orthodox, to Chasidic and Reform flourishing side by side.

After the invasion of Poland by Germany and the Sowjet Union in the Second World War, Cracow was turned into the capital of Germany's General Government. The Jewish population of the city were moved into a walled zone known as the Cracow Ghetto, from which they were sent to extermination camps such as Auschwitz . Roman Polanski, the film director, was a survivor of the Ghetto, and Oskar Schindler, the German businessman portrayed in the Steven Spielberg film Schindler's List, selected employees from the Ghetto to work in his enamelware plant, thus saving them from the camps.

Cracow remained relatively undamaged at the end of World War II. After the war, under the Stalinist regime, the intellectual and academic community of Cracow was put under total political control. The universities were soon deprived of their printing rights as well as their autonomy. The communist government of the People's Republic of Poland ordered construction of the country's largest steel mill in the newly-created suburb of Nowa Huta.The creation of the giant Lenin Steelworks sealed Cracow's transformation from a university city to an industrial centre. The new working class, drawn by the industrialization of the city, contributed to its rapid population growth.
In 1978, UNESCO placed Cracow on the list of World Heritage Sites. In 2004 Poland became a member of the European Union.

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