Auschwitz- Birkenau
A site that testifies to Europe’s gloomy past Auschwitz-Birkenau has become synonymous to the Holocaust. It was the worst of all the concentration camps established by the Nazis to exterminate the Jewish population. Between 1942-1944 over one million Jews were killed and more tortured in Auschwitz, the site is known as a place of unimaginable horrors.
The place was built by Nazi Germany when it occupied Poland, Auschwitz served as a camp for mass murder of millions of Polish Jews, men, women, and children alike. Other Europeans nationals like the Roma and Sinti were also held captive here and suffered the same fate as the Jews.
You can still see the barbed wires, the fortified walls, gallows, barracks, gas chambers, and cremation ovens used to perpetrate these heinous crimes. What’s left from the concentration and extermination camp has been preserved to show the world how cruel that part of history was.Visitors to Auschwitz-Birkenau are shown a documentary on the camp and it is not allowed for children under 14.
If you are interested in history you can book a ticket online for a couple of hours tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau, however, bear in mind that it is not an experience for the faint hearted, this is a place that carries a tremendous weight of sadness.
