Comments on: Auschwitz & Birkenau camps/museum in Oswiecim, Poland http://www.alexasigno.co.uk/auschwitz-birkenau-camps Alex's travel blog to record my life of travelling Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:42:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: megan riley http://www.alexasigno.co.uk/auschwitz-birkenau-camps/comment-page-1#comment-73196 megan riley Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:47:38 +0000 http://www.alexasigno.co.uk/?p=625#comment-73196 I have been to Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau a few times and boy, does the history smack you in the face. On a stranger note, I once had a taxi driver there who drove around all the cast of Schindler's List. He had a photo of him and Liam Neelson, Steven Spielberg on his dash. I have been to Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau a few times and boy, does the history smack you in the face.

On a stranger note, I once had a taxi driver there who drove around all the cast of Schindler’s List. He had a photo of him and Liam Neelson, Steven Spielberg on his dash.

]]> By: Rosalyn Palmer http://www.alexasigno.co.uk/auschwitz-birkenau-camps/comment-page-1#comment-73149 Rosalyn Palmer Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:40:54 +0000 http://www.alexasigno.co.uk/?p=625#comment-73149 Great post. I visited Auschwitz last June. Was an incredibly hot day that felt even more wrong (kind of expected a gray day) as the contrast to a beautiful and sunny day with the horrors of the place was even more distinct. I felt most upset at the one on one killing that took place. So cruel. I was also outraged a group of schoolgirls sucking lollypops and texting. Otherwise a sobering and necessary trip. Great post. I visited Auschwitz last June. Was an incredibly hot day that felt even more wrong (kind of expected a gray day) as the contrast to a beautiful and sunny day with the horrors of the place was even more distinct. I felt most upset at the one on one killing that took place. So cruel. I was also outraged a group of schoolgirls sucking lollypops and texting. Otherwise a sobering and necessary trip.

]]> By: Radioscrubs http://www.alexasigno.co.uk/auschwitz-birkenau-camps/comment-page-1#comment-72204 Radioscrubs Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:02:19 +0000 http://www.alexasigno.co.uk/?p=625#comment-72204 I have recently been to the Dachau Concentration Camp near Munich in Germany. It was the first to be built, and lasted throughout Hitlers reign. I was deeply moved by the images and literature in the museum, and was shocked at the size of the grounds, and how many people were forced into this terrible place, and how many lost their lives, and the manor in which they lost them. Auschwitz is somewhere i intend to visit soon as i think the film, 'Schindler’s List', is very powerful, and i want to see it for myself. As mentioned above, its hard to believe these sorts of things went on at all. I have recently been to the Dachau Concentration Camp near Munich in Germany. It was the first to be built, and lasted throughout Hitlers reign.

I was deeply moved by the images and literature in the museum, and was shocked at the size of the grounds, and how many people were forced into this terrible place, and how many lost their lives, and the manor in which they lost them.

Auschwitz is somewhere i intend to visit soon as i think the film, ‘Schindler’s List’, is very powerful, and i want to see it for myself. As mentioned above, its hard to believe these sorts of things went on at all.

]]> By: B&B Blackpool http://www.alexasigno.co.uk/auschwitz-birkenau-camps/comment-page-1#comment-72200 B&B Blackpool Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:27:31 +0000 http://www.alexasigno.co.uk/?p=625#comment-72200 What most people cannot realise until they visit these places is the sheer size of the camps. In the case of Auschwitz & Birkenau they were literally huge and covered the same footprint as a medium sized town. I have been to Bergen Belsen which lies in the British Occupation zone when I was stationed in the army in Germany in the 1980's and that being one of the smaller camps was horrific enough but they would not allow us to cross the border (which was the iron curtain in those days) to visit the camps in Poland. The one thing that struck me about Belsen was the quietness of the place. When the British Liberated the camp in 1945 many of the occupants were close to death and there was very little they could do to save them. Typhoid and other diseases also broke out. As a consequence they had to carry out mass burials in pits. Today those pits stand as memorials to the horrific acts that took place and the most eerie thing I thought was the absolute silence not even any birdsong in the vicinity. This site is an excellent resource for learning more and what the camps looked like then and today. http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/ What most people cannot realise until they visit these places is the sheer size of the camps. In the case of Auschwitz & Birkenau they were literally huge and covered the same footprint as a medium sized town.
I have been to Bergen Belsen which lies in the British Occupation zone when I was stationed in the army in Germany in the 1980′s and that being one of the smaller camps was horrific enough but they would not allow us to cross the border (which was the iron curtain in those days) to visit the camps in Poland.

The one thing that struck me about Belsen was the quietness of the place. When the British Liberated the camp in 1945 many of the occupants were close to death and there was very little they could do to save them. Typhoid and other diseases also broke out. As a consequence they had to carry out mass burials in pits. Today those pits stand as memorials to the horrific acts that took place and the most eerie thing I thought was the absolute silence not even any birdsong in the vicinity.

This site is an excellent resource for learning more and what the camps looked like then and today.

http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/

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