A Polish tour guide traces a demolished Jewish past

KRAKOW, Poland—The minibus carrying a group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from New York pulled up to the site of the demolished Jewish cemetery turned Nazi labor and concentration camp in the southern Polish city of Krakow in June, seeking out a blonde Polish tour guide.

Janina Naskalska-Babok, 42, who was dressed for summer and had not expected such a religious group, quickly put on a jacket from her bag out of respect.

“In other circumstances, we would likely have never spoken to each other,” Naskalska-Babok told JNS, noting the unusual encounter between the men in black hats and sidelocks an...