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    • Día 11

      Es wird sehr katholisch

      19 de septiembre de 2019, Polonia ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

      Kurz nach Sandomierz nehmen wir die Gelegenheit wahr und überqueren die Weichsel mit einer Fähre. Anschließend haben wir das Gefühl, zu Hause im Alten Land zu sein: Links der Deich und rechts endlose Apfelplantagen. Das Renaissanceschloss in Baranow Sandomierski, unser erster Stopp auf dem Weg nach Westen, ist eine prachtvolle Adelsresidenz und sehr gut erhalten. Zeit für einen Kaffee in der Nähe. Wir verlassen nun die Polnische Toskana in Richtung Niederschlesien. Unterwegs halten wir in Tschenstochau am berühmten Paulinerkloster, der heiligsten polnischen Stätte. Das Kloster auf dem Jasna Góra wird jährlich von Millionen Pilgern aus aller Welt besucht. Hier, wo das Gnadenbild der Schwarzen Madonna aufbewahrt wird, hielt der Papst Messen vor mehreren hunderttausend Gläubigen. Dann erreichen wir bei Oppeln wieder schlesisches Gebiet. In der Stadt eine Schülerdemonstration, „Fridays for future!“ Es wird vorübergehend „deutscher“, zweisprachige Ortsein- und Ortsausgangsschilder, Schrebergärten, sehr gepflegte Vorgärten und gefegte Gehwege. Wir übernachten im Schlosshotel Prawdzic Pałac und scheinen die einzigen Gäste zu sein. Auch nicht schlecht, dann fühlen wir uns mal eben als Schlossherren.Leer más

    • Día 6

      Am Jezioro Mucharskie

      22 de junio de 2022, Polonia ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

      Der Jezioro Mucharskie ist ein Stausee an der Skawa in der polnischen Woiwodschaft Kleinpolen. Der Stausee wurde im Jahr 2017 geflutet. Er wird sowohl als Badesee als auch als Schutzspeicher gegen Überflutungen sowie als Wasserkraftwerk genutzt.

      Am Ufer des Sees haben wir einen netten Stellplatz gefunden. Heute Abend gab es mal wieder Futter aus der eigenen Küche.
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    • Día 2

      Auschwitz-Birkenau

      6 de julio de 2022, Polonia ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

      [JJ] A very sobering experience. No words are able to truly describe what went on here.

      We saw corridors upon corridors of prisoners' belongings taken from them: kids' shoes, spectacles, cooking pots, even human hair. We walked through the gas chambers, we saw the giant Auschwitz camp, then Birkenau, which was 25 times larger than even that.

      I walked a million steps last month, and if every step were a person dying then it still wouldn't be as many people that died within these fences.
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    • Día 45

      Family time in Katowice, Poland

      30 de abril de 2023, Polonia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

      Friday 21/4 - Oslo to Katowice, Poland
      Our short stay in Oslo ended with a quick train trip to the airport, travelling through low hills covered in tidy pretty farm buildings and what looked like freshly cut hay but that seemed a bit odd for being barely into spring. Our Ryanair flight was two hours, completely hassle-free, and Andy met us at Katowice airport. There was no passport control, no officials of any sort that I can recall, hardly any bags (most people just have carry-on), just walked out.

      It was lovely to see the family again after four years, Patryk now 12 ½ and Ellie very nearly 8.

      Through the week it’s been generally quiet, kids have been at school, Andy and Justyna working various hours but we have:
      • Been to a food fair in an old factory-turned event centre, brick, lined with beautifully restored machinery along the walls, lots of space for food and drinks from a few countries and local, as well as seating for maybe a couple of hundred. There was a lot of chocolate and I can vouch for the choc-dipped strawberries BUT not tempted to sample crispy insects (looked a bit like cockroaches) or insect chocolate
      • Eaten lunch with Justyna’s extended family for brother-in-law’s birthday: traditional Silesian roll of beef stuffed with a small sausage and gherkins on a bed of red cabbage; I had the most enormous schnitzel and really nice red onion and gherkin pickles; berry or mango shots; and there was a pretty-near perfect PAVLOVA with fresh berries for dessert.
      • Had an evening out with just Andy to catch up with their friend Jarek, bar manager 27th floor of the Marriott hotel, lovely to see Andy’s oldest Polish friend again (we had first met him in late 2007 on our first trip to Poland, Andy had moved there early that year). Then we went to a bar that serves ONLY a kind of cherry drink, obviously made of cherries with, I think, vodka, quite drinkable though not as more-ish as a cherry liqueur I have had on earlier trips. And we finished with burgers in a really nice, quite small, American-style diner with a quite odd baseball/music/movie star theme, good food, sports on one screen and MTV/sixties and seventies British music videos on the other. Good food and we enjoyed our few hours including the easy train ride to get to the centre of town, which has been cleaned up quite a bit since our last visit four years ago. It’s a city with a major train hub, national conference/performance centre, big sports stadium and a really good coalmining museum which gives the history of the Silesia area and the industry, a bit interactive (no, you don’t have to dig for coal), very interesting.
      • Seen the family of wild boar (boars?) that lives in the bush just across from Andy and Justyna’s gate, I think seven babies with stripes on their backs and two rather large and wary parents digging up the paddock but also keeping a good eye on nosy neighbours. Justyna said they also see foxes, I’d love to have seen them, lots around apparently. Katowice, even though it’s a city, has a huge amount of park and forest land within the city; very obvious when we looked down from the 27th floor bar on Wednesday

      Aslan the cat is beautiful, pretty snobby, dying to go outside but isn’t allowed – has lovely blue eyes except when he’s planning evil, then they turn luminous amber. True story.

      Things I’ve noticed:
      • Polish self-checkout supermarket – I went shopping with Andy, self-checkout, then to get out of the place you had to scan your docket and then a gate would open to let you out. I was amazed by the foresight, considering in Nelson I was standing at Countdown Trafalgar and the manager, Damian, was saying to one of the staff ‘did you see that woman, she just walked out with a trolley full of groceries’. It was a shoplifter and they can’t do anything, he said. Nothing happens like that in Lidl Katowice, so efficient – and the groceries are pretty cheap too but then, the wages are so much lower, so it works out I guess.
      • TV programmes dubbed into Polish only have a male voice, so when you see women speaking it’s a man’s voice that comes out. Hasn’t changed in several years, very odd.
      • School hours are seriously strange. Some days it’s (approximately) 11am – 1.30pm, 8am to midday, other days 9.50am to 2pm……..I take my hat off to Justyna keeping track of it all as she and Andy ferry the kids to and from school which is about 4km away. Grades 1-3 have lunch supplied, 4 – 8 take their own. 8 – 12 is high school with, I think, more regular hours. There is before- and after school care which is good if they need to drop Ellie off with Patryk.
      • Pete had a haircut – asked for a number 3 cut, numbers must be different in Poland because he’s pretty bald! Funny. There was a lot of white hair on the barber’s floor.
      • Polish cocktail prosecco and limoncello must have been double strength, my head was reeling after we had been out for pizza on Friday night

      Sunday 30/4 – and here we are in Billund, Denmark, the whole family having flown over this afternoon for a day at Legoland on Monday, then we’ll be in Copenhagen until Sunday. Denmark reports will be posted……….
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    • Día 411

      Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camps

      23 de junio de 2023, Polonia ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C

      Today we had a very solemn experience, but we could not leave Europe without paying our respects.

      Auschwitz was the largest Nazi Concentration Camp created by the Nazis. In conjunction to it later becoming classified as an Extermination Camps well, 1.1 million of its 1.3 inmates were killed. The most well known group of these victims are those of the Jewish faith/ethnicity, but a large portion were also that of the 21K Romani (formally known more commonly as gypsy).

      The first transport of prisoners arrived on June 14, 1940. It contained 728 Poles & political prisoners. Of the 960,000 Jewish people that came to the camp, 865,000 never spent a night at Auschwitz. Many were assessed upon arrival on how fit for work they were. Only about 25% were admitted and the rest were gassed immediately.

      I took a lot of pictures where it was permitted. A lot of info on plaques in here. Below is a link to a zip of the higher res version of all my pictures. Feel free to go through them if you have the time.

      https://drive.google.com/file/d/1odJKi19HQ3QUee…
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    • Día 43

      Sslzbergwerk in Wieliczka

      23 de septiembre de 2023, Polonia ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

      Durch das prasseln des Regens ☔️ sind wir heute morgen aufgeweckt worden.
      Da wir aber sowieso weiter ziehen wollen, hat uns das nicht ganz so doll missfallen. Zwar ist das zusammen bauen im Nassen nicht ganz so einfach und die Hunde 🐕 🐕 finden das ständige Abrubbeln auch nicht so gut, aber was solls!
      Für heute hatten wir uns ein tolles Ziel herausgesucht und dafür ist das Wetter auch egal.
      Wir sind in eins der größten Salzbergwelten gefahren. In diesem Salzberg wurde seit dem Mittelalter durchgehend bis in die 90er Jahre Salz abbaut.
      Es gehört zum Unseco Weltkulturerbe.
      Spektakulär und einzigartig!
      Über 300 km lange Tunnel gehen durch das Salzwerk.
      Mehrere Kathedralen wurden hier unten erbaut, alles aus dem Berg geschnitten.
      Selbst der Papst war hier und auch unser Goethe hatte dies Bauwerk besucht, ihm wurde eine Kammer gewidmet, die Weimar Kammer.
      Insgesamt geht das S-werk 9 Stockwerke tief, wir wanderten knapp 2,5 Stunden in gerade mal 2 Stockwerken.
      Wahnsinn was früher ohne viel Maschinen schon erbaut wurde.
      Auf alle Fälle auch ein Highlight Polens. Unbedingt anschauen!
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    • Día 3

      Tag 2

      9 de febrero, Polonia ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C

      Frühstück im Lieblingskaffee, die Inhaberin kannte uns noch vom letzten Jahr und hat uns ein Museum empfohlen. Das schauen wir vor der Rückreise am Montag an. Dann Mittagspause und dann Arena. Faze hat gewonnen, das Heimteam Ence aus Polen leider nicht, aber super Stimmung in der Crowd. Der Vizepräsident der Veranstaltung (sreihe) hat sich zu uns gesetzt und mit uns geschaut und nach Feedback gefragt, weil wir ja fast überall sind😅Leer más

    • Día 5

      Guten Morgen

      11 de febrero, Polonia ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

      Wieder im Café gefrühstückt. Nächstes Jahr zeigt uns die Inhaberin ein paar coole Orte in Katowice, wir haben heute lange mit ihr gesprochen. Der Künstler von dem Bild was wir gekauft haben wandert übrigens aus (Aufenthaltsgenehmigung läuft wohl nach 8 Jahren aus) und das sind jetzt dann quasi die letzten Bilder von ihm. Schon sehr cool dass wir das Bild jetzt haben.Leer más

    • Día 5

      Finale - Spirit gewinnt

      11 de febrero, Polonia ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C

      Ein junges russisches Team auf ihrem ersten Event gewinnt! Der jüngste Spieler hat das beste Rating jemals bei diesem Event bekommen - ein Wunderkind. Er spielt das Spiel seit er vier Jahre alt ist. Da sie sehr schnell gewonnen haben, sind wir danach noch in eine polnische Bar zum Essen. 2x Pommes (mit Parmesan?!) und Cola für insgesamt10€👍Leer más

    • Día 16–18

      Auschwitz-Birkenau

      19 de junio, Polonia ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

      Dear readers we depart from our regularly scheduled travel blog of fun and light heartedness and instead, take a slight detour through some very important history of Europe. Now most of you reading this I’m sure are aware of the Holocaust and if you’re not, well that’s simply embarrassing for you. You may as well be American with that level of historical knowledge. Some of you will have even visited this unbelievable place (Rowan), so please bare with me as I try to inelegantly explain my experience here, as this place and the events of the “Jewish question” was quite hard to wrap my head around. In order to explain my experience here there will be a mini history lesson trying and inevitably failing to explain the scope of “the Jewish question” in a digestible and understandable context.

      The day started off with a nice sleep in of a 5:50am pickup from my hotel room, and a 1.5hr shuttle bus ride to Auschwitz. I was quite pleased with how easy the tour was to organise as I referred to in my krakow post but everything here is very cheap it was only €60 for a full tour of Auschwitz and Birkenau including door to door hotel transport. On the way we watched a 1hr doco on Auschwitz including some slight backstory but what I found more impactful was red army footage of Auschwitz liberation which helped me to really link the modern day museum with the atrocities committed.

      The tour guide had a microphone and we were given headsets which was very handy as I could dawdle at the back and still hear what she was saying. I’ll skip most of the actual tour so we can hear my very important digest but I felt the tour was quite rushed. We were only allowed to walk around with the guide and we barely spent 40seconds on any one thing. She’d just drop bombs like “this is 40,000 pairs of shoes and you can see a kids shoe” and then onto the next spot or building. I would’ve preferred to have been able to wonder around and really appreciate small details such contemplating and appreciating that each one of those pairs of shoes belonged to someone with a history and backstory, workers boots, academics shoes, a little girls cute shoes etc. But nooooo, we had places to be apparently, and as such while I can appreciate the Auschwitz museum - after the fact whilst I’ve had a bit of time to digest. I did feel that the whole experience was quite neutered. It also didn’t help that it was a 35deg day with extremely pretty, vibrant colours everywhere. I sent a photo of the Auschwitz entrance to the family group chat and my competitor/little sister “Lucinda” remarked how pretty the scenery was until she noticed the infamous “Arbiet macht frei” (work sets you free) sign. Not the same as the cold freezing\starving to death place I had come to expect from documentary footage.

      We then hopped on our shuttle bus and had a 5min transfer to Birkenau. It is important to note the difference in function between Birkenau and Auschwitz when touring the two. Auschwitz 1 was a labour camp designed to get slave labour out of its inhabitants, Birkenau or its proper name “Auschwitz II-Birkenau” was a death camp where Jews would either be immediately executed or worked to death, or worked to near death then when unable to perform their duties, they were then executed.

      The Birkenau tour was much better as I was given a lot more free roam, upon seeing the infamous gatehouse with the railway line through the middle I stopped and took it in. This place actually looked like the photos, pure death camp. I stood looking at the gatehouse for a couple of minutes contemplating just how serious what had occurred here was. All the final goodbyes of families, unknowing Jews, Romanians, homosexuals, and polish people who had entered this gatehouse and not known that they would never again see the outside world as a free human, not know the feeling of a full meal or certainty over their future. These harrowing thoughts filling my brain as I ventured further into the camp to then be standing on the loading dock of the train. The size of the camp was far greater than Auschwitz, I actually logged the walk on my Garmin and it was 3km to the end of the main causeway and back. I then saw the ruins for the crematoriums and gas chambers which the nazis had blown up before they evacuated the camp before the red army advanced. Apparently this was to hide evidence of their atrocity. I could see the underground entrances where Jews were first undressed and told to remember their ID numbers so they could get their stuff back after their “shower.” The remnant of the second chamber where 2000 people at a time could be put to death in 20 minutes. They had 4 of these chambers in Birkenau. They were pretty ruined so i had to use my imagination a bit to picture them.

      However on the way out there was numerous barracks we toured all with beds mostly untouched. This is definitely an experience as I vividly remember seeing footage of rescued Jews in these exact style of beds, 6 starving corpses of humans crammed into each level. With the sickest people on the bottom level as they didn’t have the strength to climb onto other levels. Knowing and having seen footage of people so sick they would literally die in these bunks, and touching, seeing and smelling them was a very morbid experience. The smell was so unique it was a weird mixture of cattle manure and dead possum, a very filthy and deathly smell but not in the same way a decomposing body smells. I imagine it’s leftover from the conditions they were forced to live in with no access to toilets or ability to wash themselves. It’s a very unique smell to Birkenau that I don’t think I’ll forget (Of course could all be placebo who knows).

      Overall the Birkenau tour was much greater and really showed the scale of what was being done by the Nazis better than Auschwitz. Still, the scale of “the final solution” with their 40,000 concentration camps is still quite a handful to process.

      Now onto my history lesson and the real thoughts of Birkenau. Attached in the photos you will see the loading dock at Birkenau being used in 1944 taken by a smug SS soldier, in another photo you will see the prisoners being sorted by the SS doctor who with a simple uncaring wave of his hand had the ability to choose life or death for these people. The Dr would assess if you were fit enough for work, and if you were, you lived and if you weren’t, you were sent to the gas chamber that same day. The criteria for not being fit enough for work was, a pregnant lady, old people, young kids, young girls, sick looking people. The Dr did this by simply looking you up and down. Knowing this before I came and standing in this same spot that these events had occurred some 80 years ago was surreal. Imagining this smelly train arriving filled with about 10,000 people and they would arrived after having been crammed into a goods railway cart of a journey of 7-9 days having not been allowed to eat or go to the toilet. They were just relieved the journey was over. All to be suffocated to death. In the supposed name of racial hygiene, eugenics, and antisemitism. As I walked around Birkenau, near the fences, on the pathways I found myself wondering, how many dead bodies had been on this spot I was standing. How many Jews had flung themselves into this electric fence to end it all? They were so hungry and mentally broken. The infrastructure just symbolised death and hopelessness, I know if I was in that situation I wouldn’t have lasted long.

      The Auschwitz prototype gas chamber (video attached) which operated until 1942 until gassing was moved to Birkenau. Able to kill 700 at once and was responsible for the death of tens of thousands, so many people they had to use open pits to burn the bodies with the ash remains still visible. This was converted to an air raid shelter for the SS, the fact that these men were able to convert and use this area knowing what had took place, with such indifference is quite frankly undigestible to me. For example old mate Himmler witnessed these gassing like a science experiment in 1941, and not liking the numbers ordered Birkenau built.

      What really shone through during the tour was the absolute indifference and sub human treatment that the SS treated the prisoners with, often killing prisoners because they could or for fun. One of the attached photos shows a small guard room for one SS guard to perform roll call for the entire Auschwitz camp. This hut was there so if it was raining or cold the guard could retreat into warm while all the prisoners had to stand outside. This is a small example of how conditions of living weren’t even a second thought for the prisoners they weren’t even a thought. No latrines or washing areas in 90% of the barracks, with prisoners being able to use the toilet twice a day. Many prisoners suffering from diarrhoea due to starvation etc. would soil themselves in the line. The tour guide told us once during roll call one single prisoner was unaccounted for, and the SS made all the prisoners stand at attention for 19hrs as punishment in negative 27 degree weather with 10 or so people dying due to hypothermia. What’s even more crazy about this is guess how many SS guards were around to make this happen… one single guard. The prisoners were so mentally broken, tired and exhausted, with the SS creating such a good systems with the “kapos,” who were prisoners assigned to oversee other prisoners in exchange for special privileges. That the SS didn’t even need to police this punishment, their lapdog kapos would. Who were so fearful of becoming a proper prisoner that they pitted themselves against fellow prisoners in order to maintain favour. I listened to the most heartbreaking podcast of a teenage girl survivor of Auschwitz a while back and she described the kapos as even worse than the SS.

      Auschwitz Birkenau personally saw 1,300,000 people exterminated there. Of the 11 million Jews in Europe the holocaust wiped out approximately 5/6 million. These are figures everyone has heard. However, coming from Australia, nice and removed from all this and with my own eyes touring Germany, Netherlands and Poland. Places that had been directly impacted and seeing the effects to this day. With the Jewish populations in these countries effectively having been wiped off the map, really put into perspective just how absolutely massive the scale of what the Nazis did, and how many people it had affected. There were multiple people I spoke to in each city I visited, that had effectively had one side of there entire family wiped out. Or a grandfather who was adopted and out of their whole family, they were the 1 out of 40 who survived.

      I think it’s definitely a good thing I visited Poland after visiting Germany otherwise I’m pretty sure some form of indirect hatred towards any nationalistic Germans might’ve shone through.
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    También podrías conocer este lugar por los siguientes nombres:

    Województwo Śląskie, Wojewodztwo Slaskie, Woiwodschaft Schlesien, Silesian Voivodeship, Silèsia, Slezské vojvodství, Silesia, Sileesia vojevoodkond, Behe Silesia, Voïvodie de Silésie, Provinsi Slaskie, Voivodato di Slesia, シロンスク県, Silezijos vaivadija, Silezië, Województwo śląskie, Voievodatul Silezia, Силезское воеводство, Schlesien, 西里西亚省

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