Gallery: Kraków, Poland and Auschwitz
Karie on Apr 4th 2008 10:58 pm
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- Entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp
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- The barbed wire electric fences
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- Bunkers at Auschwitz
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- Courtyard in front of the "wall of death"
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- "wall of death" where political prisoners were executed
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- Auschwitz gas chamber
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- The bunkers at the Birkenau camp
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- View from the guards tower overlooking Birkenau
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- The railroad of destiny leading into the concentration camp
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- Looking down the train tracks that end inside the camp gates
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- Brave little girl feeding the birds in Krakow's Rynek Glowny (Grand Square)
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- Sukiennice Cloth Hall in the Main Market Square
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- St. Mary's Basilica
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- Shroud of Turin - it is believed that this cloth was used to wrap Jesus' body after he was crucified
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- Closer shot of the Shroud of Turin
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- It was interesting how many types of facades were used on the Palace
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- Walking through a park in Krakow
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- A Polish man enjoying the not-too-miserable day in the park
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- Pope John Paul II lived & studied in Krakow
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- The bathroom in the train station charged based on what you wanted to do...
Filed in Photo Gallery, Poland, Travels | Comments (3)
August 4th, 2008 at 3:35 am
Hello, guess you remember me from the e-mails.
This blog entry was really meaningful, although I haven’t been there, I went to the holocaust museum in Washington, DC and I had the exact same feeling when I saw the pile of shoes they have there, so I can imagine your feeling when you saw them in the exact same place they were left. As you say, these experiences and journeys help us to love more, appreciate more and be more grateful, I don’t know if it fair to say to be grateful of being born in this era so we wouldn’t have had to live those moments, or just grateful to live in this era so we can see the result of the past and learn from our present.
Thanks for sharing these wonderful experiences… As I wrote on an e-mail, I will start my journey on october 7th…
August 15th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Hi,
Loved reading your guide on Krakow, it’s somewhere I am thinking of visiting this Winter. I have linked to your blog post on to my travel destination map, I hope you do not mind.
August 15th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
@Ivonne & Darren: Thanks so much for your comments. This year has been a bit of a whirlwind for us, so it’s great to hear when someone else finds meaning in what I’ve written, even months down the road. It brings the experience to life for me all over again. This experience is something that I never want to forget, so I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts, and stimulate my memory.