Anyone been to Auschwitz?
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Sorry to make a thread about it but i seriously want to take a trip out and visit this place. After watching The Pianist and Schindlers List it just restarted my goal of actually visiting the place and now i have the ability to.
I just ask if anyone has been and whether there is anything around Auschwitz worth seeing? best way of getting there? accomodation etc?
Was thinking of flying to Katowice as its the closest airport?
I forgot to mention that i would like to see the Warsow and Karkow Ghettos if they have some sort of monuments or museums as i doubt they still have those areas cornered off.
I just ask if anyone has been and whether there is anything around Auschwitz worth seeing? best way of getting there? accomodation etc?
Was thinking of flying to Katowice as its the closest airport?
I forgot to mention that i would like to see the Warsow and Karkow Ghettos if they have some sort of monuments or museums as i doubt they still have those areas cornered off.
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ok cool thanks, im 19 too ;p
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
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Well said, I was trying to come up with the best way to describe it and couldn't but you did a great job.
I was pretty young and didn't really expect to feel the emotions I felt. I walked out of there speechless.
I was actually looking through some pictures recently and it really brings you back. It was an emotional experience. My coach had fairly close ties to the Holocaust (not sure if it was Dachau), he was a tough hard nosed older guy and he absolutely broke down.
If I were you I would fly to Krakow as there is a lot of accommodation and just a beautiful city in general. The camps are located in the town Oswiecim (Auschwitz being the German pronunciation). I caught a mini bus from Krakow to Oswiecim which took about 40 minutes. But there are heaps of tours you can book from Krakow if you don't know how to get there yourself.
I thought Auschwitz was depressing enough, but when they take you down the road to Birkenau the enormity of it is unbelievable. I don't think i'm the same person since, not in a bad way, it's just changed they way i think about things.
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I've been to the WWI trenches and cemetaries in Ypres and that changed me, I can only imagine what Auschwitz would do...
Eduardo, let me know how you get on with plans/costs etc.
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thanks for all the feedback so far ::D
you too!? I went to all of Ypres for a year 9 history trip! The cemetry fields that i were insane. There was the Tyne Cot Cemetary and a few others. We visited a massive one which just had little crosses and poppies on them, annoyed i cant figure out what one that was but i think that was the biggest we saw there.
yeah i just even get chills just watching those graphical biograpgrahies (i dont REALLY consider them movies). Just sorta feel like i owe to them to go visit the place at least. I presume you walk through the gate which says "Work will set you free"?
meh.
I can look around pretty much anywhere to remind me of the hatred and ignorance in this world.
Yeah, ours was year 10 I think! We did the Menin Gate, Tyne Cot and the trenches. It was amazing but chilling and life changing.
Our history teacher told us a story actually, apparently his brother went to Tyne Cot with his son who was 7 at the time. He spend some time there and noticed that as his son was walking, he was touching every single grave stone on his methodical way around the cemetary. When asked what he was doing upon their leaving, the son said he was 'saying thank you' to every soldier who died for him. You should have seen us, a group of 50 fifteen year olds in tears outside a clapped out British coach :roll: :oops:
I've wanted to go to Auschwitz since then.
Dave's sister went last year, I'll ask her where she stayed, what she did for travel etc for you
... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
Too close to home.
ah yes Menin Gate we went there, infact when we were there, there was some ceremony going too.
thanks a lot!
Not sure if there is a best time to go as well.. i presume during the summer so you dont just see snow or just have rain etc but it could add to effect hmm.
I forgot to mention that i would like to see the Warsow and Karkow Ghettos if they have some sort of monuments or museums as i doubt they still have those areas cornered off.
so that's what it's like to have no soul
i went to dachau and was moved to tears
Yeah... not sure how you could go to a place like that and just say, "meh"
10 years later, and I still am moved by some of the things I saw.
I remember there was a pistol (execution) range with a "blood ditch"... I just stood there unable to comprehend that they killed so many people that they had to actually dig a ditch to collect the blood... wtf...
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
I don't think anyone with a relative that died at Dachau would think visiting would be "meh"
I thought you lived in America :problem:
I've always wanted to go. People from work have been and they have said it is genuinely moving and yet makes you angry and sad at the same time... a bit like me trying to do a rubiks cube.
Don't think the concentration camp in Schindler's List was Auschwitz, was it not Plaszow :roll:
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I must have blinked and missed that scene, but i was meaning the concentration camp where Ralf Fiennes (Amen Goeth) was the commandant of was Plaszow.
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I must have blinked and missed that scene, but i was meaning the concentration camp where Ralf Fiennes (Amen Goeth) was the commandant of was Plaszow.[/quote]
You are correct. I don't think you would have missed that scene. It made my stomach ache. All the ash from the cremetoriums in the air at night as the train arrives with the Nazi with dogs.
I must have blinked and missed that scene, but i was meaning the concentration camp where Ralf Fiennes (Amen Goeth) was the commandant of was Plaszow.[/quote]
You are correct. I don't think you would have missed that scene. It made my stomach ache. All the ash from the cremetoriums in the air at night as the train arrives with the Nazi with dogs.[/quote]
Haven't seen the film for a while but ye i think i remember it now :( so sad.
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Yes, but that doesn't matter.
it was early 1980's for me and it is one of the key visual moments of my 6week backpacking trip in europe that has stayed with me the longest. we first went through the on site museum, watched the film, and then they took us on a tour of the grounds. gas chambers et all
the part that hit me the most was "grave of thousands unknown" where they use to dump the ashes.
it was so terribly sad, seeing dachau in person. nothing could help boost me through that experience, to the point where i'd ever forget that day. it changed me a little bit that day and i have never been quite the same. it is one place everyone should see.
same here....grandparents and uncle didn't make it out. My dad, his brother & sister made it out, but they, understandably, have never gotten over it.
Your dad was in Auschwitz? WOW!!
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