Przysta Nad So Oswiecim

... shower heads were placed on the ceiling to fool them before the doors were locked) and a special deadly gas called Zyklon B was released through the ceiling. After about 15 minutes everyone would be dead. Then some of the prisoners who were lucky (or unlucky) to be alive and still being worked to death would be responsible for dragging the dead bodies to the next room to the crematorium. The Jewish prisoners would occasionally come across a family member and have to drag ...

... camp and entered 4 of the blocks to view the exhibitions on display. Often the exhibitions are just photographs taken of prisoners or of a free people being herded into the camp to die and away from their lives. One building had piles of possessions taken from the Jewish people who arrived at the camp. Piles of shoes, suitcases, clothes, hair, combs, hairbrushes, shaving brushes.
A visit to Block 11, the death block. Block 10 next to it had boarded up windows so ...

... about getting to Australia as there is only so long we have to validate the visa before it runs out, it would have been great to carry on eastwards and we feel confident the van would take us for as long as we wanted to go, but unfortunately travel by its nature means things have to change and we have to think about the journey ahead. We did consider leaving the van in Europe and flying straight to our next destination but it soon became clear flight costs were actually much higher across ...

... so many people.

We hadn’t realized the main camp or Auschwitz I was originally Polish army barracks. When the Germans took over they used it for administration and a prison for Polish intellectuals and resistance movement members, then also for Soviet Prisoners of War. Common German criminals, "anti-social elements" and 48 German homosexual were also imprisoned there. Then the Jews, Gypsies and Romains from all over were ...

... dressed for the game, so we asked were they were watching the soccer and they said that theyhad been at a nearby bar catching the action. one of the guys was driving a van, and just before he drove off he asked if we wanted a lift. Of course we did! so, sorry dad. we jumped in the van with two complete strangers and sped off to the venue. And we sped off, lennie wasnt one to waste time at the wheel, he was good at corners. They were both working on a two part mini ...

... such as myself. I take a bus to 3 kszygzy place. Since I'm soo close to Centrum I decide to walk. Along the way I buy some souvenirs for myself and others. After all that good fun, I decide to go to champions for a pint. Guess what, the place is closed for a private party. No fun for me. I am trying to meet up with Malgoszia. She's been working there for as long as I can remember and I always say hi to her when I ...

... the call from 2 officers "tickets everyone". At first I'm a little tweaked because of my past experience but I know that my ticket is in order. I have a 7 day pass that I validated on Thursday. All is well with my ticket and I continue enjoying my seat on the tram (it's the unused conductors' area). Best seat in the house because the elderly won't glare at you if you are in that seat. So some of you must be dying to know about my past ticket ...

... There were a lot of old, abandoned buildings this way, most of them falling apart, caving in and the reminance of bullet holes, all left over distruction from WWII I suspected. Eventually the bus stopped in front a very short, dead end gravel road in the middle of nowhere in front of an apartment building. This is when I realized that I had gotten on the wrong bus, especially when the bus driver turned off the ignition! As you can ...

... Poles were upset with the present government because they felt that they were not doing enough to improve Poland and that life was still rigid. From my own observations, I will tell you that Poland is not like our high tech USA-there are still very rough areas in cities, I know in the ones that we passed by on our way to Warsaw on the bus, there were areas that looked extreamly rough, and it looked like destruction and damage left over from ...

... ble sendt rett i gasskammeret uten å bli registrert. Før de gikk inn måtte de ta av seg klærne og verdisakene, og deretter ble raket for hår. 

Jødene fra Norge
1 desember kom de første norske jødene til leiren (532 i denne omgang) Etter at seleksjonen er ferdig må 346 av dem gå veien til gasskammeret, de andre 186 blir i første omgang erklært arbeidsdyktige. De får fra fangenummer 79064 og oppover. I mars 1943 tar man i bruk ...