POLAND

We leave some days to Poland, moved to know a little more of what happened in this area during the Second World War. Once more by truck, and with only that one, we reach Wroclaw, a city with a lot of university life, and where we celebrate the shortest night of the year with Ewa and Mary; and so short, there are just 4 hours of darkness, by 4:00 am is completely light. One of the curiosities of the city are some dwarfs (sculptures), which are hidden, and has to be searched them around the city, of the 15 that there are, we only found 5… for two days is not bad!

Cracow is joined to Wroclaw, through one of the two highways that there are in all the country, which we cover in a couple of cars and relatively quickly. The city has also a lot of life, but what has moved us to here is undoubtedly knowing the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz, in the near locality of Oswiecim.
If the visit to the museum is done entering into the history, it can be really impressive. Here about 1,5 million people were murdered, of which 90% were Jews, and the majority gassed. The rest were gypsies, Polish, and all the people that one day a man, decided that they were not "suitable" for the life...
Generally the Jews were gassed just arriving to the camp, mainly women and children; the healthy men were exploited for the work. These women thought that they put them in a room of disinfection, but from the showers of the ceiling, water did not come out precisely.
A part of the gassed, they used other methods as lethal injections, fusillade on the wall of the death, tortures, death for experiments, cells where they left them without water or food until they were consumed, or a lot of simply died exhausted by the work, and the bad living conditions.
In the different naves, we saw exhibitions about how they lived, and remains of objects of the prisoners as hundreds of suitcases, glasses, shoes, and about 2000 kg of hair of the women, with which they traded.

In the photos its seen part of the camp, the crematory, and the ovens where they burned the corpses.


And here some photos of the main square of Cracow and the castle.