Oswiecim, Poland

... of them Jews. I now firmly believe that everyone should visit these camps and see for themselves. Cycling towards Oswiecim I crossed several railway tracks, I thought about the wagon loads of people deported to Auschwitz. Oswiecim is the original Polish ...

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(C) I really can't bring myself to write anything about this place.  It is the most profoundly evil place I have ever been and I just can't believe people actually built it knowing what it was used for.  I was surprised that Auschwitz seemed so ...

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"He who does not remember history is destined to repeat it" The infamous Aushwitz (Oswiecim)- Birkenau concentration camps are situated an hour or so from Krakow. Travelling by train it was hard not to envision the cattle cars moving along the ...

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· Oswiecim, Poland · Prague time +0hrs · Days to get to Prague - 1 "We must free the German nation of Poles, Russians, Jews and Gypsies" - Otto Thierack, Minister for Justice of the Third Reich "Jews are a race that must be totally ...

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