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Auschwitz
... of helping another prisoner escape. I stood at the sight where Dr. Joseph Mengele conducted some of the most horrific criminal experiments I have ever heard of on twins and dwarves. I touched the beds where eight prisoners were forced to sleep huddled together, trying to fight off starvation, rats and disease. I stood next to huge burial sights where millions of prisoners ashes remain after their corpses were burnt in mass graves. I touched the huge barbed wire fences ...
A Day Never to Forget
... photographs and artifacts. Some of the most awful things to see were the shoes and suitcases and human hair. There were so many shoes, from big ones to little ones. People were told to leave their suitcases when they got off the trains and that they would get them back, so they wrote their names and other identifying information on them, like birthdates. Reading the birthdates was difficult, because they gave an idea of the fate of the suitcase’s owner.
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Down under in Krakow
... underground they would say a little prayer to hopefully keep them safe. A few of the more artistic men decided to dedicate one of the chambers in the mine as a place to prayer and began carving from the rock salt images of saints and such like to make the place feel more "sacred". This idea caught on and before long sculptures and pieces of salt art were appearing throughout the mine. The most spectacular addition to the mine however ...
From Warsaw to Krakow
... The adjacent cemetery and synagogue were destroyed under Nazi rule, and have been restored during the years 1958-1968 and 1956-1960 respectively.
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Walkabout Krakow & Happy Wedding Anniversary
... and now need to eat.
We went to Chimera Restaurant for our wedding anniversary meal. It had great write ups in all the books and online, sadly it was the worst experience we've ever had. Deb chose roast lamb and when it came it looked boiled and had no flavour, when we spoke to the waitress she shouted at Deb and took away the food and left her with nothing! Thankfully we'd had a decent lunch. Never again.
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