| Page Views: 431 Last Visit to Oswiecim: April, 2005 | Not for the faint-hearted! by Durfun - last update: Jan 6, 2006 |
| Inside a 'holding' barrack |
Gruesome concentration camps Had to see what went on during the holocaust. These camps, about 1.5 hours from Krakow, give you an idea of how cruel man can and has been. Saw Auschwitz I & Auschwitz II, Birkenau, where mass genocide took place. |
Auschwitz I Here they show a B&W film summing up what took place here. There are numerous buildings holding factual data, photos, statistics, physical evidence, confiscated articles of the victims. A wall between 2 sheds riddled with bullet holes against which victims were lined-up & killed. A railway sleeper that served as gallows for simultaneous group hangings. Luckily Rodulf Hess, an officer in charge, met his fate the same way, at the same spot. |
| The cramped bunks inside a barrack |
Auschwitz II, Birkenau site The HUGE place with 4 gas chambers, very well planned set-up, a secluded remote site built for 1 & 1 purpose only - exterminate certain selected groups. Loads of barracks showing the atrocious conditions in which people were contained before being led to their cruel deaths |
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| Pros: | "An educational fact about human cruelty" | | Cons: | "Provokes a feeling of sorrow & helplessness towards the victims" | | In A Nutshell: | "Preserved death camps of Nazi genocide" |
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matcrazy1 Wed Jul 15, 2009 17:05 UTC
I live ca 20 min. by car from Auschwitz. Well, everytime I visit it I think over the future ---> something like this never to repeat but even in "civilized" Europe we had genocide, say in former Yugoslavia in not that old past. | jo104 Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:30 UTC
Am going to visit here in October & am busy reading about the holocaust although perhaps nothing can prepare one for the sorrow "Those that do not learn from history are destined to repeat it" words of George Santayana | mvtouring Thu Feb 8, 2007 05:16 UTC
Awfull place yes, but yet I learned so much going here and met the most fantastic guy that was a prisoner here on the train ;-) | cold_dead_bunny Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:33 UTC
Thanks a lot for your page, you helped me realy! |
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