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KL Auschwitz and Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
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KL Auschwitz and Auschwitz II (Birkenau)

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Justin • 30 Comments

What can I say that has not already been said? I’ll just tell it like it is. The journey to Auschwitz… It’s just as gloomy as you would expect it to be. When Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1939, the Germans occupied Krakow and the smaller towns around it for the duration of … Continue reading →

Auschwitz/Birkenau (Poland) / Places We Go

A Model Of Birkenau

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Justin • 3 Comments

In conjunction with our visit to, and subsequent reporting on Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum London established a permanent Holocaust exhibition. One component of this exhibition I was particularly impressed by was a model constructed with painstaking detail showing the process by which Jews and others were led off the trains in Birkenau and straight … Continue reading →

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