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Oswiecim Slideshow
Oswiecim
Travel Blogs from Oswiecim, Poland
Witness to the Past
Dear friends, I recorded this interview this morning with Tova Berlinski, a former resident of Oswiecim. I have transcribed the interview here, and I have tried to stay as true as possible to the words and phrases she chose in English. Tova now lives in ...
Never Again
... the numerous small towns that lined the route but often in the middle of know where, for no apparent reason. I finally arrived at the Oswiecim station at 10:30 am, having left Krakow an excruciating 2 and half hours earlier. I quickly found a map of ...
The camps...
Auschwitz-A Very Moving Day
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 is actually more than one camp. The two main ones are Auschwitz and another ...
Poland the final frontier...
... 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 ...
Sam's Visit
... able to show him this town and have him meet the people who are in my daily life here. On the first day he was in Oswiecim, we walked into town so Sam could see the Jewish Center. On the way across the bridge, we crossed paths with Andzrej, the friendly ...
A sombre moment.....
... German companies). I won't say much more, except the place pretty much wiped out the Jewish population of Hungary and Poland...not to mention hundreds of thousands of Russians, Romanies and anyone considered a threat. Fact: If the ...
Breaking into Birkenau
Last week, a group of Americans arrived in Oswiecim on a tour for Holocaust educators organized by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. Previously, the group had been traveling through Germany and Poland with Holocaust scholar Robert Jan van Pelt, ...
Auschwitz
THE first question I was met with after wandering out of Auschwitz was simple. “How was that?” At least compared with the questions which had been raging in my mind for the previous couple of hours wandering around the museum on the site of ...
First Tour
... a little bit about it, and were clearly more interested in how an American non-Jew became involved with a Jewish center in Oswiecim, Poland. They were also very interested in my impressions of the Auschwitz musuem and its exhibits. Finally they let me ...
Archaeological Discovery
... the discovery: http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/22/relics.auschwitz.ap/ Dear friends, When we arrived in Oswiecim, we learned that archaeologists digging on the site of the town's Great Synagogue had just unearthed some Jewish relics that ...
A Day Trip to Birkenau
... from Karkow takes us to the site of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, now a memorial and museum. The town is actually called Oswiecim which is it's original Polish name; the Germans renamed it to Aushwitz (essentially the German spelling of the town). ...
The horror
... 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, ...
Work Will Set You Free
The gate in front says Arbeit Macht Frei . . . Work Will Set you Free. This was the first of many sights that will leave a lasting impression on you and cause you to ponder upon the effects of the ...
Auschwitz - Oswiecim, Poland
This entry is about our visit to the Nazi Concentration Camp Auschwitz which is located near Krakow in Oswiecim, Poland. This entry is not amusing in any way, and I have made no attempt to be creative or humorous with my captions given the nature of the ...
Auschwitz
A public bus took me to Auschwitz where a horde of tourists were ready to visit the camps (buses leave from Krakow bus station every 2 hours). I had not realized a place like that would be so popular.. So it was an opportunity to refresh my memory ...
Auschwitz
... remains grey. Ironically, the area known as Canada is where prisoners valuables were sorted and the term is still used in Poland to describe something as valuable. It's a horrible place, but worth visiting. There were a couple of other ...
Concentration Camp
... or otherwise know as Auschwitz 1 was the first camp there. It originally started as a prison for political prisoners of Poland. It later became a death camp for Jews and others, such as gypsies, homosexuals and others. Auschwitz 1 has a ...
Auschwitz
... site remains not just as a reminder of what occurred there, but also to give a sense of the people, the individual lives that were lost or shattered forever by the horrors of the Nazi 'Final Solution'. All our best from Poland, Dan and ...
Auschwitz - the German name for Oswiecim
... a memorable experience from my point of view. Auschwitz-Birkenau is located about an hour bus ride west of Krakow, in south central Poland. We left our hotel at 8:00 a.m. this morning, and arrived at Auschwitz at about 9:45 a.m. There really are no ...
Auschwitz
It's a name that brings feelings of fear and terror to the minds of people across the globe. Aschwitz. The Concentration Camp is the most widely known camp where mass extermination of Jews and other people from all over Europe occurred, estimates ...
Auschwitz & Birkenau
(Jim) It has taken me two weeks to write the entry for this day's visit. In the interest of consistency, I am writing in the same immediate-past-tense voice as our other entries: Today we visited the Nazi concentration and death camps, ...
The Horrors of Our Past
Although many things have been said over the years about this place, I find that their is almost nothing that can be said to descibe this place. No personal photos will ever ...
On Complications
... ve gotten into trouble while visiting...it's getting disturbingly long. Deported from England, jaywalking in Austria, trespassing in Poland, and that's not even everything...everyone gets to their 5 minutes of fame in different ways. It looked ...
What humans are capable of....
... in person. Just the sight of it is fear-provoking and can leave you a little breathless. We drove the hour from Krakow to Oswiecim. Auschwitz was the name give to the city by the Nazis. Although the weather remained dull it was fortunately a nicer day and ...
auschwitz
... . 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 ...
Auschwitz-Birkenau
... Canada 2. It's really interesting. I went to see the castle here... Krakow history is awesome, cuz it was the first capital of Poland and during WWII there was no bombs or destruction of the city (unlike Warsaw). I just walked around by the river, ...
Poland... two words, moving and memorable
... even lost a hub cap in protest of the bumps. With a briefing from our polish friends, we headed straight for Auschwitz (Oswiecim in Polish) Concentration and Death camp. Despite the hordes of 'dark' tourists (Dark referring to tourists who visit a place ...