Hotel Tychy
Ulica Krasickiego 10 Tychy, Southern Poland, 43-100, Poland
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Humbling Experience
... in the background of the camp but the camp area itself very stark and eery. This camp houses the original rail way line used to train prisoners directly into the camp and commence the selection process. These poor people had been locked into wagons for up to seven days without any food or water so crowded, standing room only, that many died. Also many flowers laid on the tracks and a Jewish family there at the time of our ...
Auschwitz- Oswiecim
... room, the total amount of hair found after the liberation was more than 15,000 lbs!!! 15,000 lbs. of human hair! Hair doesn't even weigh that much. Simply abhorrent.
After Auschwitz I, we continued to Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Birkenau was built in 1941 to help the flow of the main camp. Birkenau was the camp used for gassing (or 'showering' as the victims were told). They built four crematoria total in Birkenau to exterminate the ...
Auschwitz Extermination camp.
... pretty basic and all facts we had heard countless times before. The only thing I learned was that there was a work barrack that was used to sprt through the belongings of the victims in search of things of value to be sent to the Nazis. It was called 'Canada’ because our country was considered rich due to our gold mines. Dan mentioned that he believed if Hitler had been successful in conquering all of Europe, he would have certainly gone after Canada next. Scary thought. Then ...
Stranded in Safe Industrialville Poland
... office when the next train will arrive and if it will be in time to make the noon connection to Prague. The answer is thirty minutes. That’s great, because our train to Prague leaves in thirty minutes. While Ed is compiling this information, I actually find some wireless internet. This is the most sketchy looking station of the three in Poland that I have been to and the town didn’t look to touristy on the way in. So I search for ...
Auschwitz
... how much longer we would keep going for. Then we were taken to the suffocation rooms, the gas chambers, and the incinerator. Finally some kind of emotion was stirred. Was it enough? Was it appropriate?
There are two sights and we were herded off on a minibus to the second, more gruesome place, for the last hour. Here people had lived on wooden huts in freezing conditions. They had hidden babies in the putrid toilets and they had managed to blow ...



