Day 9 and 10: From Auschwitz via Krakow and Warshaw to Vilnus

We started our day with visiting the biggest former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. The camp itself is enormous and is divided into three parts; Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Brickenau, where the biggest gas chambers used to be and Auschwitz III that was completely distroyed after the Germans lost the war. It really was a factory designed for killing people. Those that were lucky enough to survive the first separation and weren't murdered right upon the arrival, were later badly humiliated and forced to work in unhuman circumbstances under the slogan ˝Arbeit macht frei˝. More than a million people were brutally murdered either by gassing, lethal injection, shot in the head or died from exhaustion and starvation. Seeing all the pictures there was quite schocking.

After visiting the camp we made our way to Krakow and strolled around its streets for a bit and then went to Warshaw. We stayed at Paulina's yesterday night, thanks again for the hospitality!

We are about to set off from Warshaw to Vilnus, we have a lot of driving to do!


Entry to the concentration camp Auschwitz I


Auschwitz - Brickenau

The museum sticker

The hair of 40 000 women and girls that were killed at Auschwitz

Victims' glasses. According to the Nazis nothing should have been wasted

The victims

The memorial to the victims

The train station where the victims were separated to those who were capable of working and to those who weren't and were sent to the gas chambers immediately

In Krakow

The Krakow castle

The knitting marathon starts today!!!! Let's see how fast we can complete the mission!

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