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Oswiecim Slideshow
Oswiecim
Travel Blogs from Oswiecim, Poland
Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Death Camp
Most of the Birkenau buildings, 3 km down the street, are gone, but it doesn't take much to visualize what happened here. The famous train tracks from the Schindler's List movie, and the cruel scenes of the Nazi doctor sending many to one side of the ...
Dag 16
Voorspelbaar blijven de ochtenden, Rik maakt me dus ook vandaag wakker. Het hotel waar we gisteravond terecht kwamen was tamelijk ok, netjes, voorzien, en zoals je dit verwacht van iets in Polen.. totaal niet ingesteld op toeristen of engelssprekende ...
Auschwitz Death Camp
Just an hour from Krakow, Auschwitz is a must-see. Very disturbing, very sad, and unlike all the black and white war footage, it is very strange to see green grass and clear, blue skies on a nice, hot ...
Les petits pains
Le musee d'Etat a Auschwitz-Birkenau. Le fond. Camp I, camp II, camp III : le centre administratif, les chambres a gaz, le camp de travail. 45 petits camps satellites. Une constellation a travers l'Europe, un peu a l'Est. En relation avec d'auters ...
Auschwitz - Not to be Forgotten
... go by myself. There were placards by every significant spot that explain what the tour guide would say anyway. The journey to Oswiecim, made me feel uncomfortable enough. I had to catch an old rickety train on Birkenau Railway that took the ...
Auschwitz
... lived in the area talked about how the town was now desolate, no one wanted to live in a place where such awful things had happened. However, Oswiecim was not chosen for the site by its inhabitants, only because it was a convienient railway ...
A Trip to Auschwitz
Me and Ritchie headed to Auschwitz. We spent ages looking for the bus station and met some South Africans who were going to Zakopane for a day trip?!! We found the bus with minutes to spare. It was a good hour and a half away buet we spent most of ...
oswiecim, in german: auschwitz
If you ever get the chance to visit south Poland,make sure to leave one day free to visit Oswiecim, an at first sight idillic little town, but with a bloody, shameful history. German name of this town is Aushwitz and here Nazy system opend one of the ...
Lest we forget
... out at about twice the cost of the bus but allows you to go at your own pace and drive the 90km or so out to Oswiecim in comfort; but far more importantly get you the hell out of there when you're shellshocked at the end. For those who don't recognise ...
Traveling to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Day Three--Auschwitz-Birkenau After what felt like a restless night of sleep, we got up early to catch our bus to Auschwitz. Last night, we discovered that our travel alarm clock had a hard time keeping the time, so we had to resort to other measures ...
Leirene Auschwitz I og Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
... lagd syntetisk gummi), og over de 30 underleirene som omgav hovedleiren. Auschwitz II - Birkenau Kvart på 8 om morran reiste vi til Oswiecim for å besøke Auschwitz I og II. Det første stoppet ble Auschwitz II som har navnet Birkenau. Vi ...
Auschwitz
... every one should see. It's about an hour and a half outside of Krakow, and really the only reason we went to Poland. It's free admission, which is very rare in Europe, but seems appropriate. Honestly, as I first read the statements made by Hitler ...
I'm Still Taking It All In
I guess I will start by talking about then end of yesterday, because it didn't end up as horrible as it started. Once I found my hostel and got settled in, I found I actually like it here. I think I already mentioned that, but seriously, the staff is ...
Auschwitz II-Birkenau
After finishing up at Auschwitz I, we got onto the free shuttle bus to Auschwitz II-Birkenau Again, not having a tour guide, Sarah and I walked in for free and began to explore. What we saw cannot be explained, the emotions that we felt cannot be ...
Feb 26, 2010
Auschwitz
We had an early start today to get the train to Oswiecim to visit Auschwitz. On arrival we followed the crowd to walk to the museum, which didn't appear to be sign posted at all!. We got there for 11am so were able to book on to the 11.30am English ...
Just a couple of hours in Oswiecim
I did a lot of walking in Oswiecim. I got lost trying to find Auschwitz Museum, so I went back and found the other concentration camp museum. It was huge and looked just like I thought. But I really wanted to see Auschwitz. I asked the gal at information ...
Arbeit Macht Frei
... surviving prisoners were liberated at the end of the war. There were actually three concentration camps operating in the Polish town, Oswiecim. The most famous was Auschwitz I, but the most notorious would have been Auschwitz II (Birkenau). By June 1943 ...
Auschwitz II - Birkenau
After a 5-minute bus ride through Oświęcim, Adam and I soon realized that Auschwitz I was a picnic compared to Auschwitz II - Birkenau. Auschwitz I may have been the world's worst concentration camp, but Birkenau was hands-down the worst ...
Thanksgiving at Auschwitz
Auschwits on Thanksgiving. Brings a whole new meaning on what to be thankful for. It's impossible for anyone to really understand what happend until your 6 inches away from a literal ton of human hair, piles of baby clothing, or actually standing inside ...
Auschwitz and Birkenau
... quite short, and you don't get to see everything there. So, walked to the bus station and got one of the Mercedes mini buses to Oswiecim, which is the town in which the first part of the death camps is. Easy trip, about 80 minutes, plenty to see of the ...