How Very Sad..  Trip Start May 02, 2006 Trip End Mar 02, 2007
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lines  Flag of Poland  , Friday, June 9, 2006  Sombre greetings
from Aushwitz - Birkenau.  It's easy to forget as you wander
Krakow's picture postcard streets that only sixty years ago this
area of Poland saw some of the worst inhumanities of the Second
World War if not in the entire history of mankind. Oswiecim, an
hour to the west of Krakow, is better known to its countless
visitors each year as what the occupying Nazis called it,
Auschwitz, a name synonymous with the Holocaust and Hitler's
final solution.  We, like everyone else were profoundly affected
by the museum, housed in some of the original blocks of the
first camp in the complex - Aushwitz 1. But the real shock for
us came three kilometres away at the Birkenau camp. The scale of
the place is as incomprehensible as the events that it
witnessed: around one-and-a-half million people, most of them
Jews, died at Auschwitz. Depo