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Auschwitz Museum
... ein. Für polnische Gefangene waren grüne Vordruckumschläge vorgeschrieben.
Alte polnische Armeekasernen, die teils von einer Mauer umgeben
waren, boten sich für den Verwendungszweck als Konzentrations- und
Arbeitslager an. 18 Backsteingebäude wurden zum Teil aufgestockt und ein
Krankenbau sowie ein ...
The run around / La recorrida
... noisy, no train number posted; but they all ended up being on time! The bus made it to the stop near the train station with only a few minutes to spare and I wanted to reserve my overnight train from Oswiecim (Auschwitz) to Prague (for a connection to Dresden, Germany in the morning). I ran to the station, waited in line behind an old geezer for a couple minutes, then gave up and headed out to the platform. My train from there was moving at ...
I'm Still Taking It All In
... of which was from Ireland (have I mentioned I love meeting people from all over the world and hearing their stories?). We started out in Auschwitz I which started as simply a concentration camp and then changed to a death camp later on (the difference of which being that in the concentration camp the prisoners worked whereas they came to the death camp to be killed). I cannot describe it and do everything justice, but I will say it was nothing like I ...
Weronika, Ewa, and Pawel
... catch because the rest of the day, we had a difficult time finding anything open outside the Jewish Quarter.
As we ate our Polish breakfasts, we watched the rain come down outside. We all hoped it wouldn't last, but, unfortunately, we spent the majority of the day sightseeing under hoods and umbrellas. We went back up to Wawel Hill and back to the Jewish Quarter for a little snack in the early afternoon. We continued on to the ...
THE CRAZY COMMUNISM TOUR
We left Prague yesterday morning at 8 am. The weather has been absolutely beautiful for the last few days and yesterday was particularly warm. Such a pity. The air-conditioning on the bus didn't seem to be working and the 7 hour journey took 10!. None of us were totally sure if the aircon problem was a mechanical or a driver malfunction. Same with the distance. Suddenly "it's only another 2 hours" turned into 5 hours. How did that happen? ...