Downhill, Derry/Londonderry - Northern Ireland.
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The Ema Slag Heap in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
On the right bank of the Ostravice River, this slag-heap (an artificial hill created by piling up waste material from coal mines) reaches a height of 315 metres above sea level. It enjoys its own unique subtropical climate because the waste material is still burning deep beneath the surface – white smoke still billows from the cracks in the ground. Snow never settles here, and flowers grow all year round. From the top of Ostrava’s very own volcano you can enjoy some wonderful panoramic views of the city. Families can be seen climbing the heap on weekends.
Today - Saturday 20th 2017 - We visited the former Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. Shortly after arriving, we discovered that on this exact date in 1945, the Nazis had commenced an operation to destroy all evidence of the atrocities that they had been responsible for during their campaign of evil.
Seventy three years ago, to the day, dynamiting had commenced on their notorious extermination chambers, which today still remain on site, having been reduced to piles of rubble and twisted metal.
A considerable distance away, a single red rose lay in the snow, at the exact spot where a wooden barracks had once stood. In 1944 more than 200 Jewish children aged between 2 and 16, the majority twins, were held here as prisoners and used in criminal medical experiments by the SS Doctor Josef Mengele.