Jem8472
TS Member
I thought I would put this post up because its Holocaust memorial day today.
This is taken from a post I made on TTF about my visit to Krakow with Carla back in may 2012
It is part of our trip where we visited Auschwitz and Birkenau.
So Monday the 7th May we got up early and went on a trip to Auschwitz. We were picked up by a guy called Phill from krakow tours. He then picked up some other people from different hotels and headed to Auschwitz.
It took a little over an hour to get there as there was lots of traffic and it was raining.
During our visit we did not get any rain but it was a very grey day.
We got there just before 10am so we did not have to go around as part of a tour group. Phil showed us inside and gave us all a map and explained some of the things and some of the good national exhibits to see.
Then we were just told to meet back at the minivan at 12:30.
I will post some photos, there is nothing nasty or graphic but you can call some of the pictures disturbing.
This photo is of a wall with all the names of people deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz or Birkenau. There are also a couple of boards behind me, but there are I think 600,000 names on those boards. That is small print. at Auschwitz and Birkenau 1.5million people were murdered. That would be a truly massive wall for 1.5 million people!
These photos are from the Birenau camp. 458 acres in total.
This reads:
"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.
One of the Crematoria that was blown up by the SS.
There are stones places all over Birkenau which are placed there rather than flowers as they will last for the rest of time whereas flowers don't.
One of the railway cars that was restored by Frank Lowy.
This bit taken from Wikipedia:
"In an Australian television production broadcast in 2010, called Family Confidential, it was revealed that Lowy had kept a secret about his survival in Nazi–occupied Hungary. As a 13–year–old Jewish boy, Lowy had never known about the loss of his father, Hugo Lowy, who was beaten to death at Auschwitz concentration camp while protecting Hugo's younger acquaintance, Myer Lowy.[9] As a mark of respect to Hugo Lowy and other Hungarian Jews, Lowy commissioned the restoration of a railway wagon that had transported Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, and placed the wagon on site at the former concentration camp"
You most probably have been in one of Frank Lawys shopping malls. Called Westfield.
I would urge people to visit Auschwitz. Its not exactly a nice place to visit and there is lots of uncomfortable things to look at but it does have an affect on you.
It is good to see and I am glad that they send children from UK schools to see it and learn about what went on.
This is taken from a post I made on TTF about my visit to Krakow with Carla back in may 2012
It is part of our trip where we visited Auschwitz and Birkenau.
So Monday the 7th May we got up early and went on a trip to Auschwitz. We were picked up by a guy called Phill from krakow tours. He then picked up some other people from different hotels and headed to Auschwitz.
It took a little over an hour to get there as there was lots of traffic and it was raining.
During our visit we did not get any rain but it was a very grey day.
We got there just before 10am so we did not have to go around as part of a tour group. Phil showed us inside and gave us all a map and explained some of the things and some of the good national exhibits to see.
Then we were just told to meet back at the minivan at 12:30.
I will post some photos, there is nothing nasty or graphic but you can call some of the pictures disturbing.
This photo is of a wall with all the names of people deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz or Birkenau. There are also a couple of boards behind me, but there are I think 600,000 names on those boards. That is small print. at Auschwitz and Birkenau 1.5million people were murdered. That would be a truly massive wall for 1.5 million people!
These photos are from the Birenau camp. 458 acres in total.
This reads:
"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.
One of the Crematoria that was blown up by the SS.
There are stones places all over Birkenau which are placed there rather than flowers as they will last for the rest of time whereas flowers don't.
One of the railway cars that was restored by Frank Lowy.
This bit taken from Wikipedia:
"In an Australian television production broadcast in 2010, called Family Confidential, it was revealed that Lowy had kept a secret about his survival in Nazi–occupied Hungary. As a 13–year–old Jewish boy, Lowy had never known about the loss of his father, Hugo Lowy, who was beaten to death at Auschwitz concentration camp while protecting Hugo's younger acquaintance, Myer Lowy.[9] As a mark of respect to Hugo Lowy and other Hungarian Jews, Lowy commissioned the restoration of a railway wagon that had transported Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, and placed the wagon on site at the former concentration camp"
You most probably have been in one of Frank Lawys shopping malls. Called Westfield.
I would urge people to visit Auschwitz. Its not exactly a nice place to visit and there is lots of uncomfortable things to look at but it does have an affect on you.
It is good to see and I am glad that they send children from UK schools to see it and learn about what went on.
