Southern Poland

Chris & Jane did all the planning for this trip. It was especially interesting for me as Poland is where my Dad's grandparents are from. We went to see the concentration camp in Auschwitz. Not a happy place to be, but the history deserves to be known. ...

This is the story of our completely unprepared trip to Poland to find jobs in a totally saturated ESL market.

... people survived. About 200-300 of the victims were gypsies, and the rest were Jewish, mostly from towns and shtetls in southern Poland. Until this year, there has not been any substantial monument on the site of Belzec. The camp was destroyed in 1943, ...

... little annoyances and a bit of stress – our first leg train arriving 4 minutes after our second leg train had departed Katowice (southern Poland's main rail hub), but we made it to Kraków around 7pm with only a suitcase handle not making it all the ...