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Hotel Glob Oswiecim

16 Powstancow Slaskich Street Oswiecim, Southern Poland, 32-610, Poland

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Always Remember...

A travel blog entry by christina.t

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... would be brought and just shot dead against this wall. Right next to it was the collective gallows where Nazis hung people as punishment, or even just to scare the others more. Again, it's something you see in the movies all the time, but seeing it in real life is really eery.

They also had a building in memory of each nationality. Since Karolina is Polish she wanted to go into the Poland museum so we stayed in there for a while. They had a lot of pictures ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration & Death Camps

A travel blog entry by c.i.222

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... and new arrivals were told they needed to shower and be disinfected before being sent to work.

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Humbling Experience

A travel blog entry by tomandscherie

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... for me was that although there were many trees there was not one bird to be heard or seen. All in all a very sad place.

Secondly the camp that I envisaged and I have seen been portrait on TV and in the movies many times is the Birkenau or Auschwitz 11 camp approximately 7km from Auschwitz 1 Camp. Originally a village called Brzezinka (meaning birch tree) the village was destroyed and called Birkenau a German translation. ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau

A travel blog entry by patrick_viajero

... all of this occurred at the actual sites really increases your perspective...

How to get there: minibuses leave at the Krakow bus station (located next the Krakow Glowny, the train station), costing 10 zloty each way

Admission: 40 zloty (30 zloty for students), including guided tour of Auschwitz and Birkenau

Travel tips: bring bottled water, good walking shoes, and a hat as there is basically no shade at Birkenau (aside from entering the barracks)
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Auschwitz - Not to be Forgotten

A travel blog entry by josiejos

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... around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, which has now seen more than 29 million visitors pass through the iron gates crowned with the infamous motto, Arbeit macht frei ("work makes free").

I asked some fellow travellers at the hostel if they had visited the concentration camps yet, and they all had with a tour guide. However, when I asked one of ...

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