Oswiecim, Poland Travel Blogs

Auschwitz-Birkenau
May 11, 2004 (13 photos)

... 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 Polish ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
Jun 19, 2007 (11 photos)

(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 ...
Jun 5, 2002 (10 photos)

"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
Mar 8, 2006 (20 photos)

· 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-A Very Moving Day
Oct 5, 2008

This morning on the way to Warsaw we stopped off at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Wasn't sure how I would feel about it-or how upsetting it would be. There are actually more than one camp. The two main ones are Auschwitz and another called  ...

Auschwitz - Birkenau
Jul 26, 2006 (3 photos)

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 ...

The shame that has impacted the World ...Auschwitz
Apr 10, 2008 (38 photos)

... , 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
Oct 27, 2007 (43 photos)

... .  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
Sep 20, 2008 (10 photos)

... . Kein groesserer text, die bilder reden fuer sich...morgen bin ich in der ukraine.und im fotoalbum hab ich unter baltics und poland alle bisherigen bilder hochgeladen. http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=AvYBbmV9PzA&NR=1 http://chaosradio.ccc.de/ctv106.html

Auschwitz
Oct 6, 2009 (17 photos)

... 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 grounds ...

Auschwitz - Birkenau Concentration Camp
May 4, 2005 (15 photos)

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Thanks for the e-mails!
May 24, 2005

Just wanted to say quick hello andd thank you to everyone who has been sending me mail!! It's very encouraging. Sorry that I have not been able to post longer, I will soon though.....and yes Katie I will tell the funny stories!!! hehehehehe Well, just ...

Auschwitz
Aug 11, 2008 (3 photos)

The day was dreary. It was just constantly raining. Not a good day to visit Auschwitz but we headed out anyway. When we got there it would be on and off. Auschwitz is really a surreal place to visit. I remember my first visit there last year really stuck ...

Auschwitz
Jul 4, 2008 (59 photos)

  

Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
Jul 30, 2008 (18 photos)

... a poignant moment and reflect on something serious we planned to see. Auschwitz-Birkenau is a former concentration camp situated in Oswiecim, Poland. Here, over one million of Jews and other prisoners were murdered by the Nazis during WWII. There were ...

Auschwitz and Burkinow
May 8, 2009 (17 photos)

The attrocities of WWII don't have to be discussed. It was very good to see this place. It sort of felt a little unreal. Though I could imagine the conditions that the people lived in, it was difficult to understand that all that I know about the ...

A cheery Valentine's Day
Feb 14, 2007 (7 photos)

... we are simply that twisted, and because it fit best into our schedule, we chose February 14th to go to Auschwitz, or Oswiecim, the Polish name, and Birkenau (Brzezinka)... Not the cheeriest way to spend the day, but very inofrmative and quite the learning ...

Auschwitz, the very worst of mankind.
Oct 10, 2006 (9 photos)

**** FRANCAIS PLUS BAS Today was a very sad day. Yet it was a day worth living. Everyone should go to Auschwitz once in their life. It's crucial to realize what mankind is capable of: good and bad. I believe it can help us as well as our future ...

Auschwitz and Birkenau
Sep 21, 2006 (21 photos)

... ...until now. We took a bus from Krakow to Auschwitz-Birkenau. These are two separate concentration camps in Poland where 1.1 million people were systematically tortured and eventually murdered because Hitler deemed them "undesirable" - 960,000 of ...

Auschwitz
May 12, 2008 (45 photos)

... during the war equals that of France and Canada; even while Poland was a occupied and conquered country. Poland had an army of 600,000 operating outside of the country; it was controlled by Poland's government operating inside Great Britain. 

The horror
Jun 26, 2007 (10 photos)

... by dark clouds, rain about and Chris feeling the effects of the previous days hike we decided early in the morning to make for Oswiecim a day earlier than planned. While the name 'Oswiecim' isn't well known, the German name for the same town, Auschwitz, ...

The Death Camps - Auschwitz-Birkenau
Jun 19, 2009 (48 photos)

Very emotional day!

Auschwitz... Birkenau... Culture
Jan 16, 2007

... to a pub into Oswiecim town (being the only people inside the pub and being above 10) having a wonderful HC party in Oswiecim. Actually, probably the first one ever. In the meantime, the storm went raw and wild; thunder and lightning and strong wind ...

AUSCHWITZ, POLAND A SAD PART OF ALL OF OUR HISTORY
Jul 15, 2009 (36 photos)

We knew we would be up early but 6 a.m. was too early. We were told someone was coming here at 5 a.m. to work, but we didn't know what it would be or how noisy.  A big truck came in to empty the holding tanks and it is just behind us.   We got ...

smoke
Jul 18, 2006 (9 photos)

Auschwitz was an amazing site. It's hard to believe what I stepped on was the same area that is part of our history. I must've spent eight hours total between both Auschwitz and Birkenau. I wish I could say more, but I think I'll let most of the pictures ...

Auschwitz
Jul 2, 2006 (2 photos)

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 great ...

Auschwitz and Birkenau
Jun 30, 2008 (9 photos)

... , after the germans defeated polish forces trying to repel the invasion by the Nazis.  The Nazis incorporated the area around Oswiecim into the 3rd Reich, cleared the entire area of its population, and used materials from the towns buildings to build ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camps - Poland
May 24, 2007 (9 photos)

Hi everyone - Our little travel egg alarm clock woke us early today so that we could prepare for a full day of touring Poland. We began the day with a typical Polish breakfast - ham and eggs, and for those who are anxious to hear - the coffee is ...

The camps...
Sep 3, 2008 (16 photos)

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Poland the final frontier...
Jul 20, 2009 (6 photos)

... it didn't happen so it would be a small ambition finally achieved. The route we had taken quite accidentally took us through Oswiecim, more commonly referred to as Auschwitz, we had planned to visit Auschwitz this time but we thought it was closer to ...