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Day 2 in Krakow
... Mike did some good negotiating with the tour guide and we got a great deal on a tour to the Jewish ghetto and Schindler's factory. The idea of the Jewish ghetto was really crazy....apparently Hitler put all the Jewish people into one section of the city across the river, so he knew where they all were. There is a great memorial on the other side of the river...it's full of chairs, since the Jewish people were bringing everything they could carry from their houses, ...
Some Lovely Days in Krakow
... that has been rather befuddling has been reading signs or menus, because Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and Polish uses the Latin alphabet, but the languages are similar enough that I will start to try to read in Cryllic and end up very confused. For instance, in Ukrainian, "pharmacy" is "аптек 072;" (apteka). In Polish it is the same word, but written "apteka."ÃÂ I stood outside the pharmacy for several ...
Holocaust History: Auschwitz & Schindler's Factory
If I haven't already told you about my amazing "Holocaust and Genocide" class, it's a once-in-a-lifetime class. Definitely the best class I'm taking here. Everything I've learned, the years of Holocaust history I have taken, is so much more real here. My professor, Dr. Kozlowski, has more connections to the Holocaust and Polish history than you can imagine. His father was shot and killed during the occupation, his uncle was the former Prime ...
From Warsaw to Krakow
... br> A brief on Wawel Castle: The Royal Castle took many centuries to erect, and was the center of political power at the end of the 1st AD. It became a fortified castrum of the Vistulans in the 9th century, and its first ruler was Mieszko (965-992AD) of the Piast dynasty. During 1025-1034, Wawel became Poland's main center ...
Auschwitz and Birkenau
... used in factories to make other war products. Hair – mostly from female jews was used to make a kind of hemp fabric and netting for army purposes, also in mattresses.
We were in one room (no photos obviously) which was the contents of a warehouse found on liberation, it contains hair from about 40,000 women – nobody can ever doubt what happened here.
Another one of the prison blocks full of baby shoes, another of men's shoes, ...
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