but having been there.. I think we stayed in the same hotel in Warsaw.. we did treblinka, aushwitz, birkenau, majdenek and also went to the city of lodtz- I was on a program called the march of the living for 2 weeks in my senior year of high school- 1 week in poland and 1 week in israel... in memory of the holocaust and the founding of israel...
I think some of the things you mentioned about aushwitz rang huge bells.. though I thought the people picnicking inside the camps was worse.. treblinka I could kinda of understand- its a memorial, but the original camp is gone.. but at majdenek there is still a HUGE mound of ashes and you can smell them when the wind blows (its covered, but open air on the sides as a form of memorial)... and of course since I travelled with a few survivors, including one couple who lived through and MET at Auschwitz, my impressions where a bit different hearing their stories.. and of course the program was named because we traced the death march from aushwitz to birkenau 3000+ strong in memory of those who died there..
The memories of that trip will stick in my mind forever, though there were some wonderful things in warsaw- like the market, and the palace... I have a postcard perfect picture of that on one of my slides... need to get those digitized at some point..
I wrote a diary while there and used information from it to do a slide presentation when I came back that I have given many times over the years...
Amie
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I must have missed your post in advance of this trip..
