We made a side-trip to Auschwitz Concentration Camp. There were scheduled buses that brought us there from Krakow bus terminal. We paid for an English guided tour so we could have a better understanding of the place. It was well worth the time and price. We left the camp feeling both sadness for the Jewish prisoners and anger at those who did the horrible things to them.
(Top row, left) A sculpture of a man chained to a pillar till his death.
(Top row, right) “Arbeit Macht Frie”, ie. “Work Sets You Free” - where in fact, the only way out was through the crematoriums' chimneys.
(Bottom row, left) Electric fencing that can be seen around the camp.
(Bottom row, right) There were so many captured prisoners that a second storey had to be added to the building.
In "X-Men: First Class" movie, Magneto grew up here.
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