Fourth fifth and sixth days
Sorry guys. I wanted a separate post for each day but for some reason this hasn't been working the way it should so I lost all my posts. So ridiculous. Therefore I'm just going to give you all a rough overview of what happened versus something detailed. I'm slightly frustrated with it if you can't tell.
Day four, Friday:
We visited the village of Lidice first thing, that was destroyed by the Nazis In 1941 simply because they needed to "set an example." it was a very powerful place that made you wonder at the monstrosities that occurred during that time.
All that's left of the village. The Nazis tore down the buildings and bulldozed everything even going so far as to dig up the cemetery
This is the memorial of the Lidice children who were taken to camps and then driven around in trucks until they died from the re routed exhaust fumes.
We then went to a fruit factory and then to a winery, the oldest in the Czech republic. We then went to th campus to gather our stuff and go to the train station to ride an overnight train to Poland (which was very eventful I must say considering a girl shut her hand in the window, a crazy old Czech couple threw a fit on us, and four of our students got kicked off the train for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.) but don't worry they got back on, haha.
Saturday, Day 5
We visited auschwitz and birkenau, which were truly powerful as well but especially hard to imagine the horrors. Lidice was much easier to relate to seeing as I come from a small town, you know? Then we hung out around krakow, ate some real polish sausage, and had a good time.
This is the famous sign leading into the camp: "work will set you free". Unfortunately being sent to this camp was a guaranteed death sentence. The inside of the camp was so strange to me. It was almost like a small town complete with street drains and beautiful shade trees surrounding the brick buildings all uniformly built. It was not somewhere you would initially see as a place of death and destruction, but I suppose that is part of the horror. Also, it was a polish military base before being taken over by Germany.
Sunday, Day 6
All we really did was just hang out around the city. Seriously. Haha.
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Day four, Friday:
We visited the village of Lidice first thing, that was destroyed by the Nazis In 1941 simply because they needed to "set an example." it was a very powerful place that made you wonder at the monstrosities that occurred during that time.
All that's left of the village. The Nazis tore down the buildings and bulldozed everything even going so far as to dig up the cemetery
This is the memorial of the Lidice children who were taken to camps and then driven around in trucks until they died from the re routed exhaust fumes.
We then went to a fruit factory and then to a winery, the oldest in the Czech republic. We then went to th campus to gather our stuff and go to the train station to ride an overnight train to Poland (which was very eventful I must say considering a girl shut her hand in the window, a crazy old Czech couple threw a fit on us, and four of our students got kicked off the train for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.) but don't worry they got back on, haha.
Saturday, Day 5
We visited auschwitz and birkenau, which were truly powerful as well but especially hard to imagine the horrors. Lidice was much easier to relate to seeing as I come from a small town, you know? Then we hung out around krakow, ate some real polish sausage, and had a good time.
This is the famous sign leading into the camp: "work will set you free". Unfortunately being sent to this camp was a guaranteed death sentence. The inside of the camp was so strange to me. It was almost like a small town complete with street drains and beautiful shade trees surrounding the brick buildings all uniformly built. It was not somewhere you would initially see as a place of death and destruction, but I suppose that is part of the horror. Also, it was a polish military base before being taken over by Germany.
Sunday, Day 6
All we really did was just hang out around the city. Seriously. Haha.
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