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Oswiecim Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Oswiecim, Poland
Auschwitz concentration camp
This is a top pick! Hello everybody, I almost scratched Auschwitz off my itinerary - too depressing. Fortunately, I didn't! A tour here is somber and horrifying to say the least. But also very powerful emotionally. I hesitate to call it the ...
Birkenau extermination camp
This is a top pick! Hello again, Just a few kilometers away from Auschwitz is Birkenau. Remember the famous guard tower and dividing platform from Schindler's List? The Nazis deported hundreds of thousands of prisoners by train to Birkenau. I wasn't aware ...
Auschwitz-Birkenau
This is a top pick! ... , 90% of them Jews. I now firmly believe that everyone should visit these camps and see for themselves. Cycling towards Oswiecim I crossed several railway tracks, I thought about the wagon loads of people deported to Auschwitz. Oswiecim is the original ...
Auschwitz
This is a top pick! 2.7.06 Oswiecim The north of Poland is poorer than the south it seems to me. With a population of 36 million people we did not find it over crowded as the area of Poland is over 323,250 sq kilometers. The kids are on school holidays now and it's ...
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
This is a top pick! (C) I really can't bring myself to write anything about this place. It is the most profoundly evil place I have ever been and I just can't believe people actually built it knowing what it was used for. I was surprised that Auschwitz seemed so ...
He who does not remember history is ...
This is a top pick! "He who does not remember history is destined to repeat it" The infamous Aushwitz (Oswiecim)- Birkenau concentration camps are situated an hour or so from Krakow. Travelling by train it was hard not to envision the cattle cars moving along the ...
Unspeakable evil in Auschwitz
This is a top pick! · Oswiecim, Poland · Prague time +0hrs · Days to get to Prague - 1 "We must free the German nation of Poles, Russians, Jews and Gypsies" - Otto Thierack, Minister for Justice of the Third Reich "Jews are a race that must be totally ...
Auschwitz
This is a top pick! ... advanced on Poland and into Germany. For the most part, the museums were really good, especially an excellent exhibit on Poland's WW II history, including the underground struggle and life in the Jewish Ghetto in Krakow. There were also some moving ...
Auschwitz - Birkenau.
This is a top pick! ... camps are about a 2 hour drive from the beautiful city of Krakow. You won't find Auschwitz on a Polish map but rather Oswiecim which is the town name. Auschwitz is the German name for the actual camps. We took a guided tour of both Auschwitz 1 and ...
Auschwitz - Birkenau
Got up at 7.30 and managed to get the train this time to Auschwitz. The train took about an hour and a half to Oswiecim, or as the Nazis renamed it - Auschwitz. It's not the biggest of the three camps in the area, but it's the one that has all the museum ...
Oswiecim
... has also been reconstructed or revitalized or revamped for it is now a UNESCO World Heritage site and also a big tourist draw for Poland. I wanted to visit because I am a believer in knowing the history that has come before so that we don’t make ...
The shame that has impacted the World ...Auschwitz
... , gypsies, etc." In the 1940's, Hitler began in his campaign slowly taking over the eastern European nations, one of which was Poland, who at the time had a huge Jewish population (that's AT THE TIME). Krakow, once populated with a majority of jews, has ...
Auschwitz-Birkenau by day, then a night in Krakow
... . After a Polish continental breakfast, which consists of yes-more Kielbasa, Katrina's cousin picked us up for a day trip to Oswiecim, home the Auschwitz Museum. After about an hour drive, we came up to the main gate of the ...
Auschwitz
... tone well. Although a visit to a concentration camp isn't fun or pleasant, it is an important thing to do on a trip to Poland, or Europe in general. It's a reminder of the horrible things people are capable of, and of how important it is that nothing ...
Aushwitz-Birkenau
This morning we woke and had breakfast downstairs in the hotel. There was quite a bit for me as Polish breakfasts are cheese and cold meats and salads. Rachel had some bread, though they didn't have a toaster so she had to have it cold, and some yogurt. ...
Bea's Home Town
Chelmek is a small little town that reminds of my small little town in West Virginia. My dad wanted Pictures of Poland so I'm devoting this page to the pictures that I have of Poland. So Ol'man I hope you enjoy the new Pictures ...
Smiling and nodding
... made up a majority of the town before the war (7,000), but today there are no Jews here at all (the last Jewish resident of Oswiecim died in 2000). I'll keep you posted on the work. Now I'm off to Krakow, so I won't post another entry until Tuesday or ...
What I do at the Jewish Center
... the experience of French prisoners. Jehanne and Helene are working jointly on a painting and poetry presentation of their impressions of Oswiecim for display here at the Center. When my project is finished, I'll post the text and photos in a travelogue ...
Auschwitz Extermination camp.
... I would do when I first started learning about them as a child. Now I am here… After leaving Warsaw we drove to Oswiecim, the town of Auschwitz (named the latter by the Nazis during their occupation). Dan had located a camping which also acted as a ...
My Polish Home
Dear friends, I'm posting this entry for family and friends who might be interested in seeing my living space - please feel free to skip it! I'm uploading photos of the building and inside of the apartment the four of us share here at the International ...
Auschwitz I
Dear friends, On Wednesday, our group spent the day touring the archives, national exhibitions, and collections at the Auschwitz State Museum. It was an incredible opportunity to go behind the scenes and be able to see how the information and artifacts ...
Oswiecim is not Auschwitz
... to an ordinary town named Oswiecim - the prewar Oswiecim and the Oswiecim of today. Now a moderately prosperous city in south-central Poland, Oswiecim has become one of the most important tourist sites in the country, but few if any of these visitors pay ...
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 ...
A Home for Pawelek
Dear Friends, Yesterday as I was leaving the Jewish Center, I came upon a tiny black-and-white kitten sitting perfectly still on the sidewalk watching the cars rush past. He didn't move as I approached to pick him up, and he stayed completely quiet on ...
Auschwitz
... of Polish people, Soviets, gypsies, gays, and political prisoners were killed too. It is said 4.5 million people were murdered in Poland. Many were Jews taken there from other places in Europe. I still can’t fathom the fact that we walked over ...
Auschwitz
Oswiecim in the 1940's, due to a turn of events, became "A living Hell" for many people. More then 6.5 million people were murdered, tortured, and starved to death. That is just putting it nicely. Apon entering the camp there are shops and stuff ...
Auschwitz
... , most of them being Jews, most of them in the death chambers. So it was built originally for the Poles - Hitler had his eye on Poland and didn't want it full of those Poles - so he decided to exterminate them. It was meant to be an instrument of Nazi ...
