Phew!

Oct 07, 2010 17:46

Back from Krakow! I was so tired I ended up not being online at all, meh. T. also insisted we go to Auschwitz, so we did, and, ugh, while I certainly knew what I was going to see, because Polish kids spend almost an entire year's worth of Polish classes reading about Holocaust, Holocaust survivors, concentration camps and WWII stuff in general, I ( Read more... )

auschwitz, agatha christie, books, travels

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astragalizo October 7 2010, 18:41:14 UTC
Yeah, me too. And there was this little old lady, who looked at the photos in the first barrack, and looked back at me, and made a face as if she didn't understand anything at all, and started crying, and of course, I joined, because this is how morainaki works, also LITTLE OLD LADY.

I also couldn't stop reading the names on the suitcases D:

UGH. I had no idea about the grass o_O They let us walk on it, and said the ashes were scattered on the fields or that the Nazis made fertilizers out of them or something.

It was totally disturbing that the people who were expelled from Birkenau came back after the war, and now live some 100m from the camp o_O I

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