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Always Remember...

A travel blog entry by christina.t

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December 31, 2011

Saturday morning we took about an hour and a half long bus ride around 10am to the Auschwitz concentration camp. We didn't have a professional tour, but they had pamphlets you could buy that provided you with a good route to take to see everything, and had a lot of information within it so we did that.

This camp was the largest Nazi concentration camp, and possibly the worst. Over 1 million Jews were killed here along with hundreds ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration & Death Camps

A travel blog entry by c.i.222

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I was going to include this with my blog on Krakow, but thought better of it, because it deserves its own blog.

Nov 5: Today was our day to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest concentration camp in Europe. I skipped this tour 17-years ago, because I felt it would be too emotionally wrenching. When I visited Hiroshima and the atom ...

Auschwitz

A travel blog entry by brookeandnick

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There isn't a whole lot to say about Auschwitz. It's just as depressing as you imagine it to be. When we went it was freezing cold and raining, which set the dreary tone well. Although a visit to a concentration camp isn't fun or pleasant, it is an important thing to do on a trip to Poland, or Europe in general. It's a reminder of the horrible things people are capable of, and of how important it is that nothing like this happens again. The most emotional thing for ...

Humbling Experience

A travel blog entry by tomandscherie

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Thursday 6th October 2011

Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Auschwitz 1

Brzezinka (Birkenau) Auschwitz 11

Weather Cold but no rain

This one is going to be a short one because we all know the atrocious history of the camps during world war 11. I am just wanting to put a few things down for our own memories of our visit to these two camps. I was not really that keen to visit however the three musketeers were and ...

Auschwitz - Not to be Forgotten

A travel blog entry by josiejos

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... what they thought of the camp or the guide, she told me she spent most of the day just really irritated at how blasé the tour guide was about the whole camp. I definitely do not want someone showing me like that, so I decided to just 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 ...

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