Day: 28 May 2014

Eastern Europe

Auschwitz – Some Facts

Thanks to the BBC for providing these facts about the horrors of Auschwitz. My visit yesterday is still filling my mind. In all, 1.1 million people died during the four and a half years of Auschwitz’s existence; one million of them were Jewish men, women and children. Other groups of people who died included Polish […]

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Eastern Europe

Krakow and Auschwitz

I read in the guide book that Polish trains are notoriously late and our train from Warsaw was no exception. It left 15 minutes late and by the time we arrived in Krakow, 250 kilometres away, it was around 45 minutes late. Krakow is almost directly south from Warsaw. It is the ancient capital of […]

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