Auschwitz Concentration Camp - Oswiecim, Poland at EveryTrail
Track in red shown above is the way that we get back from the camp site to Krakow. (Note: Drop-down box at the top right of the map can be changed to display map and so on as well as +/- signs to zoom in and out)
Q: Why did it has to be Oswiecim?
A: Because of its location, Oswiecim (in German “Auschwitz”) is in the middle of Nazi regime.
Bus No 15, fare 10 PLN (100 Baht), takes 90 minutes to the camp (75 kms in the West of Krakow).
Sign written in German at the entrance of the camp as shown above is not to Welcome the new comers but it says “Work will set you free”. การทำงานจะทำให้ คุณได้รับอิสรภาพ ???
Words of Hans Frank, Polish Governor General at that time
(ยิวคือ เผ่าพันธุ์ที่จะต้องถูกทำลาย ให้สิ้นซาก)
Victims at this camp were categorized by nationalities.
As told by the SS, in order to resettlement , some of victims bought train ticket, known as one-way ticket to death, to go to the camp.
The tickets were bought by them; Jews from Thessaloniki, Greece.
Entrance of the Extermination Block.
Q: How could they kill mass victims easily? (2,500 victims a time)
A: “Material for Jewish resettlement” in other word poison gas named “Cyclone B” delivered from the ceiling of gas chambers
The SS are burning the dead victims.
Between blocks 10 and 11 is the wall of death, victims sent to be shot.
Photos of victims are shown with name as well as arrival and executed dates.
At the end of the war, commandant of the camp who was tried and sentenced to death was hanged here.
Coffee breaks before leaving the camp by public bus to Krakow.
It is not ordinary trip as usual, but the most valuable trip to be memorized.
