Oswiecim, Poland

Travel Blogs from Oswiecim (78)

Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oswiecim, Poland travel blog
Auschwitz-Birkenau
May 11, 2004

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by charity_cycle
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Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Poland travel blog
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
Jun 19, 2007

(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 ...

A travel blog entry by gr8escape
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He who does not remember history is ..., Oswiecim, Poland travel blog
He who does not remember history is ...
Jun 5, 2002

"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 ...

A travel blog entry by catmoj
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Unspeakable evil in Auschwitz, Oswiecim, Poland travel blog
Unspeakable evil in Auschwitz
Mar 7, 2006

· 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 ...

A travel blog entry by byrnedm
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Attractions in Oswiecim (2)

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Ul. Wiezniow Oswiecimia 20, Oswiecim, Southern Poland, Poland

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Established by the Nazis in 1940, this complex became the symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust.
Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation
Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation

(Centrum Zydowskie w Oswiecimiu), Pl.Ks.Jana Skarbka 3-5 Oswiecim, Southern Poland, Poland

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