Poland: Małopolskie: Oswiecim: Auschwitz-Birkenau

Danie Butcher
Derby

Not worth visiting!

A review of this place: not what i expected

i went in november of last year and stayed in krakow. a friend and i got a coach to Auschwitz and i was so excited because this was a place i have wanted to go my entire life. first of all, the camp was closed bar the main bit (i.e. Birkenau)and the main buildings were just memorials of people who were persecuted. i imagine it would have meant much more to me had someone of my ancestral line been there or had anything to do with the holocaust, but they didn’t. the last couple of buildings were emotional and the wall was emotional… that was it though. there are more delightful things to see in Poland than auschwitz.

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viennaroma
0 places

I've NEVER written a comment on ANYTHING before, but I have to for this

“There are more delghtful things to see in Poland than auschiwtz”. Seriously, you actually wrote this? No, seriously? I don’t even know what to say that could come close to this insipid, tasteless and moronic statement, other than I am ashamed to even have read it.

Teitur
47 places

Well..

What you have encountered here is the I infamous British understatement..

Apart from that, if this is not read through that British lens, it’d echo quite well with what I heard from the locals of the area when I stayed there. They would generally like you to look to the future and not to dwell upon the past and will urge you rather to associate their city with their considerable contributions to the arts and sciences and the culture of Europe and not with this shameful part of human history. In fact I believe many people are a bit annoyed by this morbid fascination many Americans and Brits seem to have with the Holocaust…


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