Hotel Galicja Oswiecim

... shook up by the images around them. Although the gas chambers were partially destroyed by the retreating Germans, trying to cover their tracks at the end of the war, it was easy to see how they functioned and what they looked like when in use. Behind the gas chambers, the ash ponds still remain where they would dump the human ashes after incineration. The camp is huge and although it was filled with people walking about, the ...

*Before you read on, I do want to warn you that I wrote about things that are really hard to read. It is graphic and really sad. So don't read this blog entry until you&#8217;re ready, if at all.<br><br>Auschwitz&#8230; It&#8217;s hard to think of the rights words to describe this place. Everyone has heard of it and knows it used to be the main Nazi-run concentration camp for Jews during the Holocaust. It had so many more functions than that though. I thought I knew quite ...

The Polish name of the town and the camp synonymous with fear and also known as Auschwitz. Today we visited here. A good part of the camp was destroyed after the war but a good part of it 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&#8217;t make the same mistakes. I also like ...

... Birkenau. <br><br>This camp is a completely different experience to Dachau. There was little attempt to bring out the individual victims voice as they do in Dachau or the Jewish memorial(Berlin); the focus of this museum is to bring the massive scale of the executions. Also, where Dachau was a model camp, visited by the Red Cross up into the 1940s, and prisoners were marched into town in front of the locals, Oswiecim was the opposite. It was chosen because it was ...

... they stick around for a bit. After walking around I decide to find a bar mleczna. Dad reminds me of the one that we went to last time we where here. After a little bit of walking around I finally find it. I order a pork chop plate with taters and substitute the surowka with peas and carrots. Here in Poland they call a surowka a salad. Dude it's grated carrots. I can't resist and after my meal I order ...

... awlright. 6 Seater Carriage 6 had on one side of us a couple of get-a-room types (and the other side normal people) so that still beat a 60 min wait til the next train. Back in Warsaw we went back to the hotel Metropol where we had stored our stuff and collected our train tickets to Berlin & Brussels (bought a month earlier on the Internet, phew). This time they gave us a room in the done-up wing which was nice but had no a/c. so slept like ****! Anyway would recommmend Krakow and environs.

... finally over. After a bus, to another bus, to an overnight ferry, to a bus, to a night stranded in Ancona, to a train, to another train, to a taxi that should have been a bus, to a bus on the tarmac, to a plane, and finally a shuttle service to Krakow, all we needed to do was find a place to sleep. She Said: After an uneventful flight, we landed to an overzealous amount of applause from the passengers. It made me wonder how many crashes ...

... miraculously a sense of humor about death. Every hour of every day, from the largest church in the middle of the city a trumpet player plays a famous tune that can be heard live in the main square and that is broadcast throughout the rest of the city. As the story goes, this tradition of marking time was unexpectedly cut short one afternoon by an arrow that was shot straight through the trumpeters throat, so every hour, in exactly the same place in the song, the sound of the trumpet is also cu...

... abw**tend und täuschte V**ständnis vor. Er musste gedacht haben, dass ** Europä** hasse. Diese Scheißdeutschen mit ihrem Geld. Sie sind so geizig und teilen nichts. Auf dem Weg zum Bahnsteig kauften wir ein Wass** für zwei Zlotti und fünfzig. Kris war ärg**lich. "Viel zu teu**!", meinte **. Ich lächelte. D** gute alte Kristof. Auf dem Bahnsteig fielen mir zwei junge blonde Mädchen auf. Sie waren wund**schön. Groß vom Bau und schlank. Mit hartkantigen Gesichtszügen. Eine von ...

... ble lagt i massegraver i nærheten. Jødene kom etterhvert i stadig større antallI, og gasskammeret var i kontinuelig bruk. Så i juni tok man i bruk gasskammer nummer to (Bunker II). Hver fange hadde en gjennomsnittlig levetid på tre måneder, så en million fanger ble drept hvert år. Mange ble og bare sendt rett i gasskammeret uten å bli registrert. Og før de gikk inn gasskamrene (som fangene ...