We took our time the next morning and then set off towards the airport. Along the way we stopped at Auschwitz. Originally Jimmy didn’t feel the need to go since he and I had visited Dachau, but he changed his mind after Veronica said she didn’t want to go. We hadn’t booked a tour, so we just wandered on our own.
This was actually the smaller of the two Auschwitz concentration camps. From the official website:
Auschwitz I is where the Nazis opened the first Auschwitz camp for men and women, where they carried out the first experiments using ZyklonB to put people to death, where they murdered the first mass transports of Jews, where they conducted the first criminal experiments on prisoners, where they carried out most of the executions by shooting.
Instead of showing what life was like at the camp, the former dorms were set up as memorials for the victims with each country presenting the stories of their citizens in different ways, many of which were intensely moving. This was definitely milder than what we would have experienced if we had visited Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the larger mass extermination camp.
Afterwards, we saw this abandoned building while searching for a restaurant, which proved more difficult to find than we expected. As much as we would have loved to have
pierogies one final time, we ended up at an Italian restaurant instead.
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