Visiting Concentration Camps

[BERESFORD]

tey holocaust camp locations tou can then enter the individual locations into google
for more specific info
If you go to Auschwitz which you can do from Krakow there is a guided tour
of both the Main camp and Birkenau.you might prefer just to go round on your own
Also been to Dachau which is rather more interpretive of the development of anti
semitism so has a different perspective albeit that 30,000 people died there 1933-45
and only 1 building but the same atmosphere,

beresford

[BERESFORD]

Re coach parties at Auschwitz

Our driver had trouble finding the place ended up having to ask a local villager.
Had no time at Birkenau. frankly if commercial firms are going to do this visit.
Do the prep make sure your drivers know where the camp is and give it the time it deserves not just a stop, off on the route from Warsaw to Krakow.

[EmersonBigguns]

There is a great hotel in Auschwitz proper that is a short bus ride from the camps...

*** Hotel Galicja Oswiecim (Auschwitz-Poland)

[DaveBrigg]

We booked a local tour to Aushwitz from Krakow, and although it was a 'full' day it didn't give enough time to see the whole site. We wanted to wander to the ruined (destroyed) areas furthest from the main gate, but had to return to the bus. To be honest, what happened there was so overwhelming that it was hard to comprehend the scale of the tragedy.

Terezin, in the Czech Republic, (formerly Theresienstadt) is also well worth a visit. A lot of it is brick built, so in a better state of repair, and apart from a museum section most of it seems to be in the same state as when it was at the end of the war. I don't know if there are tours; we stopped off while driving back (north) from Prague. It wasn't a 'death' camp as such, but most of the occupants met their ends at other camps such as Auschwitz.

[Trincomalee]

I don't know whether it's available in translation , but you could read "Der Totenwald" by Ernst Wiechert . He was imprisoned in Buchenwald before the war and this account was buried in the garden until after the war . It gives a sense of how much was already happening in the 1930's .

[BERESFORD]

Originally Posted by Trincomalee

I don't know whether it's available in translation , but you could read "Der Totenwald" by Ernst Wiechert . He was imprisoned in Buchenwald before the war and this account was buried in the garden until after the war . It gives a sense of how much was already happening in the 1930's .

Certainly was in the case of disabled people murdered in special centres in Germany and Austria after 1938
Legislation regarding enforced sterilisation fromm 1933 if I remember correctly
See The Nazis a warning from History for the story of one victim
Manfred includes an interview with his sister
she demonstrates how he waved to her the last time she saw him
alive.at the Aplerbeck Hospital near Dortmund (see Wikipedia nfro more info)

1 victim I know about among millions.