"That's OK, we'll just sleep in the car"
Yesterday I was visiting our 91 yr old Jewish friend Marianne. She and her family fled Czechoslovaka at the beginning of WWII and in her case ended up in the UK.
She was telling me of the time she and her husband were driving around Poland in an old Polish Fiat, which would have been back in the Communist days. They were visiting an old war comrade in Silesia and decided to visit Auschwitz, since they had evaded incarceration there.
After taking a tour of the camp, they asked if there were a hotel nearby where they could spend the night.
"Oh, I don't think they have any rooms free," the guide answered. "But we can put you up in the camp overnight."
Marianne and her husband declined this offer.
(As it happened they found one room left in a hotel on the edge of Krakow.)
She was telling me of the time she and her husband were driving around Poland in an old Polish Fiat, which would have been back in the Communist days. They were visiting an old war comrade in Silesia and decided to visit Auschwitz, since they had evaded incarceration there.
After taking a tour of the camp, they asked if there were a hotel nearby where they could spend the night.
"Oh, I don't think they have any rooms free," the guide answered. "But we can put you up in the camp overnight."
Marianne and her husband declined this offer.
(As it happened they found one room left in a hotel on the edge of Krakow.)