Today is a very looooong day. We have met at 05:30 in the morning to go to Poland. We had our last trips today. The first one, Auschwitz, and the second stop was Krakow.
Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camos built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III-Monowitz, and 45 satellite camps.
Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941, and Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazi "Final Solution to the Jewish question". From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe. At least 1.1 million prisoners died at Auschwitz, around 90 percent of them Jewish; approximately 1 in 6 Jews killed in the Holocaust died at the camp. Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poled, 23,000, 15,000 Soviet prisoners, homosexuals and tens of thousands of people of diverse nationalities. Many of those not killed in the gas chambers died of starvation, forced labor, diseases, individual executions, and medical experiments.
It's been a hard visit but we have only visited Auschwitz I, and we had enough!
It was a sad day in Auschwitz as the guide told us and teach everything the Nazis did.In Crakovia had a good time with my friends.
ResponEliminaI like so much the visit to Auschwitz it was terrible, but good for know what did the Nazis, and the terrible thinks can do the people.
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