Prof. Weis (left to right) at the city hall in Marianplatz, a major square in Munich, Germany; at the home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Salzburg, Austria; and at the main gate of the World War II factory of Oskar Schindler in Krakow, Poland, made famous by the Steven Spielberg movie, Schindler's List.

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Shown left to right above are: Prof. Weis overlooks Munich from the observation area atop the city hall building; the Marianplatz square in Munich; Munich, in the Bavarian area of Germany, is 85 percent Catholic and Church are everywhere; a beer wagon rolls down a Munich street; an Olympic Pavilion from the 1972 Munich Olympics, during which  members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually 11 were killed by the Islamic Palestinian terrorist group Black September; residents stroll a Munich plaza on a sunny Sunday; a typical World War II era Nazi building still standing in Munich; yes, they do sell--and people wear--lederhosen in Bavaria; beer halls are everywhere, this one after a variation on the Weis name, Weisse Brau Haus.

Shown left to right above are: a typical chalet style building near the village in which Mozart's mother was born south of Salzburg, Austria; Prof. Weis on the bridge with Salzburg in the background; a beautiful lake region in Austria; horses lined up near the main square in Salzburg; a beautiful altar in an Austrian cathedral; a street stage in Austrian village; apparently, on top of the world in Austria; and St. Gilgen, home of Mozart's mother with Lake Wolfgang in the background.

Shown left to right above are: Prof. Weis at Schindler's factory, now a museum to commemorate Oskar Schindler's efforts in saving more than 1,100 Jews from certain extermination at the nearby Nazi Auschwitz death camps in World War II (main gate and enamelware made at the factory in background); factory enamelware carts; Schindler's factory, now a three story museum commemorating the Nazi invasion and occupation of Poland and the work of Oskar Schindler in saving Jewish lives during World War II; plaque  on the factory wall; a remaining section of the Jewish Ghetto wall which Nazis forced the Jews to construct in the shape of tombstones; a photo of Jews building that same ghetto wall; the Krakow, Poland, former Jewish ghetto as it appears today; Shirley Weis walks from the pharmacy that was used by Jews during Nazi occupation to smuggle messages in and out of the ghetto. Below (left three photos) Jews are brutally moved by the Nazis to the Krakow ghetto in 1941. Many families carried chairs with them thinking they were moving to normal living quarters. Photo on right below shows a memorial at the train station in the former ghetto area made up of large, metal chairs.

Shown left to right above are: historical "Cloth Hall" where textiles were offered and where booths of all kinds flourish today; inside the Cloth Hall; the view of St. Mary's basilica on the main Krakow square; the museum building; member of religious orders--in traditional nuns' habits and priests' cassocks are everywhere; the amazing tableau altar at St. Mary's which folds out to these three panels; the bishop's residence with a picture of former Pope John Paul II in the window; and horses and carriages everywhere in Krakow.

Shown left to right above are: the grounds of the Shrine of the Black Madonna, an image of the Virgin Mary with darkened skin and two scars, in Czestochowa, north of Krakow; iconic statuary on the grounds; a photo showing the Black Madonna outside the main church itself; throngs waiting for a glimpse of the painting, said to have been done by St. Luke on a table once used by Jesus and Mary; the vaulted ceiling of the adjacent church and a magnificent side altar of the shrine on the grounds of the Jasna Gora Monastery. The image still bears two sword marks from earlier attacks by Hussites in 1430. It is "black" because of a fire which which once damaged a monastery at which it was located.