Visiting Auschwitz

Nick · 06-12-2005, 06:40 PM

Im planning a visit to Auschwitz next spring and wondering if anyone has been?

Kiwiwriter · 06-12-2005, 07:14 PM

No...but check out Deborah Lipstadt's home page...she did a journal on her visit for the 60th anniversary of the liberation...it has good information.

Nick · 06-12-2005, 08:03 PM

ok will check it out, how unreal would it be to stand at look at the railway tracks leading into the camp, i have often thought about it and i reckon it will be the must emotional trip i have or will ever take, especially when ive read and watched so much on it.

Wise1 · 06-12-2005, 09:41 PM

I am visiting in February next year.

Nick · 07-12-2005, 12:43 PM

excellent, you will have to let me know if your doing a tour of Poland or just a flying visit to Auschwitz,

Wise1 · 07-12-2005, 11:18 PM

Intending on being there for a couple of days, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Warsaw and Lodz are my targets.

Nick · 08-12-2005, 09:28 AM

full debrief when you back Lee, will be one hell of an emotional experience

Wise1 · 08-12-2005, 11:48 PM

Will do, cant wait but hesitant also

hengist · 09-12-2005, 05:15 AM

While you are there guys, and being shown the dreaded gas chamber and its ovens, think about this:
Quite an eye-opener, wot?
Also while you are there, ask your tour guide to show you the camps' hospital, theatre, cinema, swimming pool, sports field, post office, library and whore house.
Yes Virginia, Auschwitz had all those things!
What kind of a "death camp" is it that provides its detainees with health care and recreational facilities?

Nick · 09-12-2005, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hengist

While you are there guys, and being shown the dreaded gas chamber and its ovens, think about this:
Quite an eye-opener, wot?
Also while you are there, ask your tour guide to show you the camps' hospital, theatre, cinema, swimming pool, sports field, post office, library and whore house.
Yes Virginia, Auschwitz had all those things!
What kind of a "death camp" is it that provides its detainees with health care and recreational facilities?

I guess it wasnt all killing for the SS then, at least they could go to the cinema after a hard days butchering or go for a swim, after they have visited the whore house.

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Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ Posts: 2,431	Visiting Auschwitz No...but check out Deborah Lipstadt's home page...she did a journal on her visit for the 60th anniversary of the liberation...it has good information. __________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com

06-12-2005, 08:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
Nick Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Connecticut Posts: 120	ok will check it out, how unreal would it be to stand at look at the railway tracks leading into the camp, i have often thought about it and i reckon it will be the must emotional trip i have or will ever take, especially when ive read and watched so much on it. __________________ Nick Racanelli

07-12-2005, 12:43 PM	#5 (permalink)
Nick Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Connecticut Posts: 120	excellent, you will have to let me know if your doing a tour of Poland or just a flying visit to Auschwitz, __________________ Nick Racanelli

08-12-2005, 09:28 AM	#7 (permalink)
Nick Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Connecticut Posts: 120	full debrief when you back Lee, will be one hell of an emotional experience __________________ Nick Racanelli

06-12-2005, 09:41 PM	#4 (permalink)
Wise1 Very Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,056	I am visiting in February next year.

07-12-2005, 11:18 PM	#6 (permalink)
Wise1 Very Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,056	Intending on being there for a couple of days, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Warsaw and Lodz are my targets.

08-12-2005, 11:48 PM	#8 (permalink)
Wise1 Very Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,056	Will do, cant wait but hesitant also

09-12-2005, 05:15 AM	#9 (permalink)
hengist Discharged Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 3	Auschwitz gas chamber and ovens. While you are there guys, and being shown the dreaded gas chamber and its ovens, think about this: Quite an eye-opener, wot? Also while you are there, ask your tour guide to show you the camps' hospital, theatre, cinema, swimming pool, sports field, post office, library and whore house. Yes Virginia, Auschwitz had all those things! What kind of a "death camp" is it that provides its detainees with health care and recreational facilities?

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