Visitamos el campo de concentración auschwitz para obtener mas cultura de este terrible suceso.
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Visitamos el campo de concentración auschwitz para obtener mas cultura de este terrible suceso.
When the official tour of Auschwitz was over, the tour guide asked if any of us wanted to go up in the tower above the infamous gate of death, as that required permission of a tour guide. Naturally I said yes.
Up here, it was easier to see the scale of the camp. You can see the ramp where victims were unloaded from the trains on a side track, to be sent either to the gas chambers or to work.
You can see some tour groups clustered on the main walkway and the ramp.
A lof of the camp on the right was never completed, to my understanding, although several buildings on the left still stand.
The distance from my vantage point here to the trees at the end of the tracks is at least 1 kilometer. Width-wise, Auschwitz II-Birkenau is about 3km wide.
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Ruins of prisoner barracks, with what look like partly-destroyed fireplaces, stand silent in the cool March afternoon, while the death gate looms behind them.
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"To the memory of the men, women, and children who fell victim to the Nazi genocide. Here lie their ashes. May their souls rest in peace."
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The Auschwitz exhibit just opened at the ROM the other day. I plan to go to it, even though obviously I've seen the remains of Auschwitz in person.
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I've noticed that I'm good at getting pictures of the backs of people's heads. Oh, the life of an introvert photographer.
Having said that, it would have been inappropriate at Auschwitz to shout "Hey everybody! Look this way!"
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On the morning of Day 12, I went down to the large and spacious buffet at the Hampton by Hilton Oświeçim, where there were a few other men by themselves eating breakfast. I went back up to my room and packed my stuff, and noted in my trip journal how efficient it was to pack different things into different sub-bags. I had grocery bags for socks, underwear, shirts, dirty laundry, snacks, and toiletries, which made it much easier to grab what I needed out of a tall, cylindrical backpack.
I checked out of the hotel around 9:30am and walked to the bus stop. I got on the 1 bus, which dropped me off just outside the Auschwitz I parking lot. I dropped off my gigantic backpack in a little yellow building, and went inside the main building to wait for my tour group to materialize.
Auschwitz was the climax of my Europe 2020 trip. It wasn't so much the highlight of the trip that stood far above the rest of what I saw, but it was the biggest reason why I went to Europe in the first place. I had wanted to visit Auschwitz on my first Europe trip in 2008, but I was with my family that time and the Eurail pass we bought didn't cover Poland. Since my 2020 trip was a solo trip, I could do whatever I wanted.
The grounds of Auschwitz I were busier than I expected for early March (and during the early escalation of a pandemic that would soon engulf the planet), although really I shouldn't have been surprised; Wikipedia says over 2.3 million people visited Auschwitz in 2019.
A tour guide showed up who had a Polish name but sounded like my Peruvian former coworker Melinda. She spoke very quietly, so the headphones helped. I would have taken this picture of a group ahead of us while waiting for our tour to start.
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Auschwitz-Birkenau stands as a harrowing symbol of the Holocaust, where the fortified walls and grim facilities bear witness to the atrocities committed during the Nazi genocide. Established by the Germans in 1940, Auschwitz was initially a concentration camp and later expanded into an extermination center where at least 1.1 million people were systematically murdered, the majority being Jews.
The remnants of the camp serve as a somber reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust and the importance of remembering history to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
Auschwitz-Birkenau stands as a harrowing symbol of the Holocaust, where the fortified walls and grim facilities bear witness to the atrocities committed during the Nazi genocide. Established by the Germans in 1940, Auschwitz was initially a concentration camp and later expanded into an extermination center where at least 1.1 million people were systematically murdered, the majority being Jews.
The remnants of the camp serve as a somber reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust and the importance of remembering history to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
Auschwitz-Birkenau stands as a harrowing symbol of the Holocaust, where the fortified walls and grim facilities bear witness to the atrocities committed during the Nazi genocide. Established by the Germans in 1940, Auschwitz was initially a concentration camp and later expanded into an extermination center where at least 1.1 million people were systematically murdered, the majority being Jews.
The remnants of the camp serve as a somber reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust and the importance of remembering history to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
Auschwitz-Birkenau stands as a harrowing symbol of the Holocaust, where the fortified walls and grim facilities bear witness to the atrocities committed during the Nazi genocide. Established by the Germans in 1940, Auschwitz was initially a concentration camp and later expanded into an extermination center where at least 1.1 million people were systematically murdered, the majority being Jews.
The remnants of the camp serve as a somber reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust and the importance of remembering history to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
Auschwitz-Birkenau stands as a harrowing symbol of the Holocaust, where the fortified walls and grim facilities bear witness to the atrocities committed during the Nazi genocide. Established by the Germans in 1940, Auschwitz was initially a concentration camp and later expanded into an extermination center where at least 1.1 million people were systematically murdered, the majority being Jews.
The remnants of the camp serve as a somber reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust and the importance of remembering history to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
Auschwitz-Birkenau stands as a harrowing symbol of the Holocaust, where the fortified walls and grim facilities bear witness to the atrocities committed during the Nazi genocide. Established by the Germans in 1940, Auschwitz was initially a concentration camp and later expanded into an extermination center where at least 1.1 million people were systematically murdered, the majority being Jews.
The remnants of the camp serve as a somber reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust and the importance of remembering history to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
Auschwitz-Birkenau stands as a harrowing symbol of the Holocaust, where the fortified walls and grim facilities bear witness to the atrocities committed during the Nazi genocide. Established by the Germans in 1940, Auschwitz was initially a concentration camp and later expanded into an extermination center where at least 1.1 million people were systematically murdered, the majority being Jews.
The remnants of the camp serve as a somber reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust and the importance of remembering history to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
Auschwitz-Birkenau stands as a harrowing symbol of the Holocaust, where the fortified walls and grim facilities bear witness to the atrocities committed during the Nazi genocide. Established by the Germans in 1940, Auschwitz was initially a concentration camp and later expanded into an extermination center where at least 1.1 million people were systematically murdered, the majority being Jews.
The remnants of the camp serve as a somber reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust and the importance of remembering history to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
Auschwitz-Birkenau stands as a harrowing symbol of the Holocaust, where the fortified walls and grim facilities bear witness to the atrocities committed during the Nazi genocide. Established by the Germans in 1940, Auschwitz was initially a concentration camp and later expanded into an extermination center where at least 1.1 million people were systematically murdered, the majority being Jews.
The remnants of the camp serve as a somber reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust and the importance of remembering history to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
Auschwitz-Birkenau stands as a harrowing symbol of the Holocaust, where the fortified walls and grim facilities bear witness to the atrocities committed during the Nazi genocide. Established by the Germans in 1940, Auschwitz was initially a concentration camp and later expanded into an extermination center where at least 1.1 million people were systematically murdered, the majority being Jews.
The remnants of the camp serve as a somber reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust and the importance of remembering history to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II and the Holocaust. It included Auschwitz I, the main camp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, which was both a concentration and extermination camp, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp, along with dozens of subcamps.
These camps became central to the Nazis' Final Solution, where at least 1.1 million people were exterminated. The liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Union on January 27, 1945, revealed the horrors of the Holocaust to the world.
Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II and the Holocaust. It included Auschwitz I, the main camp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, which was both a concentration and extermination camp, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp, along with dozens of subcamps.
These camps became central to the Nazis' Final Solution, where at least 1.1 million people were exterminated. The liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Union on January 27, 1945, revealed the horrors of the Holocaust to the world.
Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II and the Holocaust. It included Auschwitz I, the main camp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, which was both a concentration and extermination camp, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp, along with dozens of subcamps.
These camps became central to the Nazis' Final Solution, where at least 1.1 million people were exterminated. The liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Union on January 27, 1945, revealed the horrors of the Holocaust to the world.