Olimpijski Hotel Oswiecim

2a Chemikow St. Oswiecim, Southern Poland, 32-600, Poland

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Always Remember...

A travel blog entry by christina.t

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Touring Auschwitz I was again very depressing and eery. This concentration camp was a whole lot bigger than Mauthausen which I saw in Austria. It was really strange entering through the main gate that says "Arbeit macht frei" (work makes one free). You see that in old WWII movies and it's a strange feeling to see it in real life.The buildings were made more into a museum and provided a lot of information. They still had, of course, the rooms the same way as ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration & Death Camps

A travel blog entry by c.i.222

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... buildings where the winters (Tule Lake, CA) were extremely cold, and the wooden floors were not sealed from the elements. One coal-fueled pot-bellied stove in each unit was not enough to warm our "home." Looking at the brick buildings of Auschwitz makes one believe the prisoners lived in better housing than many during those times, but that's ...

Humbling Experience

A travel blog entry by tomandscherie

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... I did not realise there were two camps, Auschwitz 1 which was originally and still is today the town of Oswiecim, invaded, renamed and people displaced from their land at German occupation.
This camp is mainly brick buildings, comprising of the hospital in which terrible medical experiments were undertaken. It has one remaining in tact gas chamber that we toured - just awful - the other chambers they destroyed towards the end ...

Auschwitz

A travel blog entry by mish_brendan

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... early bus in only to find that there was not one going until 8:30AM. This bus unfortunately got us to the site at 10:10 but after pleading with the ladies at the reception we were let in on the sly without a guide. This meant that we were able to take our time looking around the buidlings of Auschwitz and take in the atrocities that happened there. An estimated 1.5 million people were murdered in this camp, ...

Auschwitz - Not to be Forgotten

A travel blog entry by josiejos

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... on Auschwitz or Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp. It was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in World War II. It was the largest of the German concentration camps and consisted of Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II–Birkenau, Buna–Monowitz (a labor camp); and 45 satellite camps. Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town ...

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