SEVEN years after prices for private residence clubs and other fractional developments collapsed, the value of a small slice of paradise is still far from recovered. Sales last year began to pick up, hitting $516 million, but that is just a quarter of what it was in 2007, according to a recent report from Ragatz Associates, which tracks this market.
TarnÃ³w, city, MaÅopolskie wojewÃ³dztwo (province), southeastern Poland, near the confluence of the BiaÅa and Dunajec (a tributary of the Vistula) rivers. It is an industrial city, producing mainly chemicals, building materials, processed foods, and electrical machinery, and a rail junction on the KrakÃ³w-Lviv (Ukraine) rail line.
Tarnow, Poland, 1940. Before World War II, about 25,000 Jews lived in Tarnow, a city in southern Poland, 45 miles east of Krakow (Cracow). Jewsâwhose recorded presence in the town went back to the mid-fifteenth centuryâcomprised about half of the town's total population. A large portion of Jewish business in Tarnow was devoted to garment and hat manufacturing.