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POLAND | Mon, 27 Mar 2017 | By swathi | Views [775] | Comments [1]
Auschwitz-Birkenau ( 4 th March 2017 )
Krakow, the last city within coach-distance from Brno that I had yet to enter. My dad was coming to visit me for the weekend and I asked him how he felt about a quick trip ... Read more >
Tags: auschwitz, concentration camp
GERMANY | Sun, 19 Jun 2016 | By wanderlustgail | Views [864]
Something reminiscent of ashes brushed across my face and landed in my hair as I approached the entrance to Dachau Concentration Camp. They were floating around everywhere, creating a disorienting haze in the unseasonably brilliant early spring sun. ... Read more >
Tags: concentration camp, dachau, germany, khalil gibran, kz dachau, sabbatical, solo, travel
POLAND | Tue, 21 Jul 2015 | By dohnster | Views [658]
Want to know a scary statistic? Before the Holocaust, over 68,000 Jews lived in Kraków. Know how many live here now? 120...
Sorry I'm behind on posting. I've been making my way down Croatia and Montenegro, and I'm waiting for my flight ... Read more >
Tags: auschwitz, concentration camp, kraków, walking tour
POLAND | Fri, 27 May 2011 | By drmitch | Views [614]
I decided
to take the day train from Prague to Krakow as I’d read a few dodgy things about the night
train, and find that after night commutes I end up wasting the following day in
any case. Which was lucky as we ended up stopping at some ... Read more >
Tags: auschwitz, birkenhau, castle, concentration camp, krakow, salt mines
CZECH REPUBLIC | Sat, 19 Sep 2009 | By murrihyk | Views [1219]
The 1 st of July had always promised big things for this trip. We were leaving behind the somewhat calm of Vienna, Austria and heading towards the nightlife of Prague. Besides the fact that we had one of the earliest starts of our ... Read more >
Tags: concentration camp, prague, rain
GERMANY | Sat, 25 Jul 2009 | By living_the_dream | Views [493]
Reliant as ever on the weather to decide on our plan of action, the scheduled rain seemed like a perfect opportunity to make the pilgrimmage to Dacau. The holocaust had always seemed so distant, told in school history lessons as a warning to all humanity ... Read more >
Tags: concentration camp, germany, travel
GERMANY | Tue, 7 Oct 2008 | By juliedrewe | Views [495]
Day 7
Today we decided to take in some more history and head to Dachau where one of Hitler's first concentration camps were built. Instead of taking a tour we decided to get there ourselves which saved us round 50 euros. We went to the information ... Read more >
Tags: concentration camp, dachau, hitler, munich, tour