Auschwitz concentration camp
While visiting Cracow you can’t omit other nearby landmarks, e.g. Wieliczka’s Salt Mine or Auschwitz death camp. The latter is especially significant for those who are interested in the history of WWII.
To enjoy your fascinating trip you should wholly familiarize with Auschwitz concentration camp, which became a timeless symbol of Holocaust and the Nazi crimes committed on Poles, Romanies, Jews and other nations.
To see the whole picture of the brutal past we should visit both Auschwitz I as well as Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Trips usually take 2 to 4 hours so we should dexterously plan our day. There are many trains, buses and taxis thanks to which we can reach our destination without any restraint.
Most buildings are accessible for visitors but remember that some are excluded from the tourist trail. It’s advisable to get to know with the rules of sightseeing Auschwitz Death Camp so as to avoid future problems and understatements.
On the camp’s territory the Nazi forces created the first outpost for both men and women. It was also a place where the first death experiments with the use of Zyklon B were carried. In Auschwitz indiscriminate slaughters took place and many orders of death by firing squad were given. Auschwitz II-Birkenau was known as the killing centre where huge mass murders took place. Nearly 1 million Jews were killed there during a period of Holocaust.
At first there was a kind of experimental gassing of ill and weak prisoners and then an unimaginable tragedy started. Mass killing became a daily routine and extermination was carried on a huge scale. There were many ways of mass murdering and among them especially “popular” were shooting, burning, starvation, gassing and beating to death. It’s a horrible story to be heard but unfortunately it was true.
What’s more dreadful is that thousands of children were killed and those who survived were taken on as guinea pigs. When the war was near its end there was an order to save gas and that was why newly born children were thrown directly to the ovens. There were also those “lucky children” who were saved from burning but instead camp doctors carried out inhuman experiments on them. Many Jewish and Gypsy children were placed in pressure chambers, castrated, frozen to death and tested with different life threatening drugs.