A sombre day - Blogabond

Today we got our stuff together and went to a town called Oświęcim in Polish, or you might know it by it's German name, Auschwitz.

Wow... Not a great deal can be said about it... It is divided into 2 parts, Auschwitz and then about 3 kms away, there is Birkenau which was known as Auschwitz II...

Walking around the museum you see and hear and read about the stories of the 1-1.5 million people killed at that very place. They were often brought in under the illusion that they were going to find new riches in an Eastern country, and bought plots of land, and fake businesses from the Nazis. They were then loaded into trains to be taken to either work as slaves or to be killed...

Those who have visited can understand, those who haven't should. There is not a great deal more I can say...

written by

Big_T on September 14, 2008 from Krakow, Poland

from the travel blog: Big_T's Travel Blog

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