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Travel Blogs from Auschwitz, Poland
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How Very Sad..
This is a top pick! ... to the west of Krakow, is better known to its countless visitors each year as what the occupying Nazis called it, Auschwitz, a name synonymous with the Holocaust and Hitler's final solution. We, like everyone else were profoundly affected by the ...
Auschwitz
... lives, their living quarters, and their tragic experience. It's unimaginable what those people went through. Everyone always acts like going to Auschwitz is something you have to do if you're in the area. It took me 2 years to get the courage to do ...
Auschwits
Went to Auschwits the concentration camp today. When you walk though entrance it says "Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat ...
Memorable Auschwitz
... big death camp. Actually it is made up of two areas that are kind of like college campuses, or barracks. Auschwitz 1 was originally Poland's barracks for their military. When the Nazis took over this area they decided to change the practices which ...
Auschwitz
... read it for the second time, and i think it says something to me which i also took away from my visit to Auschwitz concentration camp. That people are capable, whether under guise of personal prejudice or political ideas, of doing anything to one ...
Sobering day
Today was a very surreal and sobering day. Auschwitz. As everyone Im sure knows Auschwitz was one of the largest and most deadly concentration camps that the Nazis created. 1.5 Million Jews alone died here, not to mention the other victims that died ...
The Camp
Visiting Auschwitz was a hard and eye opening experience, but one that we both felt should be done to honor the memory of those who suffered through the Nazi-led genocide. It was a somber reminder of the cruelties mankind is capable of and yet a ...
A cheery Valentine's Day
... actually took place and it is massive...you can walk through the old barracks and it feels very sombre and cold... Auschwitz has a museum filled with possession, including a building housing thousands and thousands of shoes, one display of tons and tons ...
Week 11. A nation of tragic stories, lovely people
... estuve varios días y, cuando ya la había visto salí a varios lugares en los alrededores. Primero estuve en Auschwitz (Oswecim)... la experiencia más devastadora que he tenido. Es demasiado fuerte, demasiado brutal y sin embargo creo que es bueno ...
Tracing the Tragedies of WW II
... time to see both. So Andre advised me to see Auschwitz quickly before we moved on to Birkenau. A brief history of this place : Auschwitz I was originally constructed as the barrack for Polish soldiers. But after the Nazis took over, it was turned into a ...
Auschwitz
A short train ride from Krakow put us only a mile from the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camp here was responsible for over 1.1 million deaths. It's hard to describe the feeling from visiting the camp, and to be honest I'm not ...
Arbeit macht frei - work brings freedom i ...
... - WORK BRINGS FREEDOM I was having second thoughts on whether i should write about my pilgrimage to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in Southern Poland, just for the simple fact that i don't think words can do justice to the impact it has on ...
Concentration Camp
... prisoners of Poland. It later became a death camp for Jews and others, such as gypsies, homosexuals and others. Auschwitz 1 has a lot of brick buildings that were used for prisoner rooms. On the tour we went into several rooms that ...
Auschwitz
... , which produced the poisonous gas Cyclon B. This camp was totally destroyed by the Nazis before they fled. Today, Auschwitz I and Birkenau stand as memorials, testaments to the unthinkable horrors committed by the Nazi regime during World War ...
Jul 17 - 1
... because much of it was burned by the Nazis in hopes to destroy evidence of the genocide. The gas chambers and crematoriums at Auschwitz II - Birkenau were destroyed by the Nazis before it was liberated on January 27, 1945, but there was one small one ...
Auschwitz
... in my life felt what I felt when I walked through the gas chamber and saw the crematoriums. I don't even know how to describe what I felt. You must go and see Auschwitz. I feel deep darkness, saddness, anger and numb. Mel Gibson is a fucking ...
POLAND 4th part-Auschwitz and Wieliczka
... is strictly made of salt. The visit is whileworthing and ....take a pullover, down it is a little fresh. AUSCHWITZ the greatest concentration and extermination camp in Europe used by the Nazis during the second world war to eliminate Jews ...
Auschwitz
Today we went to the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was a very trying experience for us both. We got to see what the prisoners had to live like, plus it was under 0 Celsius and snowing the entire time. Just visiting was ...
Angst in Auschwitz
... was just a piece of what I think of as the Jewish Experience that I'll want to read more about. Before WWII, Auschwitz I was a base for the Polish Army. After the Nazis occupied Poland Hitler turned it into a concentration camp for his Polish political ...
Auschwitz and travelling south
... , feeling certainly like she had seen enough, but we were both glad we did. Birkenau was originally 3 villages located 3 kilometres from Auschwitz. The very first thing that hits you is the rail line leading up to the gates below the main guard tower, a ...
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration & Death Camps
... to resemble shower rooms, and new arrivals were told they needed to shower and be disinfected before being sent to work. AUSCHWITZ: ...
Auschwitz Concentration Camp - Poland
This is a sad reminder of our past. I believe in the strength in people to ...
Day 104 : Auschwitz
A tough one to explain, other than you have to visit this place to believe it - and everyone should visit this place at some stage. No movie, book, story or anything else you see, hear or read will prepare you for the sheer magnitude of what happened ...
Auschwitz
... train and getting our own way there. After finally getting a ticket, we just made the train and travelled the 1 1/2 hours to Auschwitz. Along the way we saw the amount of snow increasing and also the influence the Russians have had on this country. You ...
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