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Dzień dobry,
I arrived in Warsaw on an early-morning sleeper train from Prague. My stay overlooked the rooftops of Old Town. In Warsaw I visited the sites of the former Ghetto, the Umschlagplatz deportation point, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising markers, the Warsaw Uprising memorials, areas connected to the Wola Massacre, and the stories of Wanda Lurie, Janusz Korczak, and so many others.
From Warsaw I traveled by train to Lublin. The next morning I visited the Belzec Extermination Center with my interpreter and guide, and later we drove to the killing site at Józefów. The following day took us to Sobibor Extermination Center. The museum was open, though the memorial grounds were closed for renovation.
On my third day I took a bus out to Majdanek, one of the most intact and hauntingly preserved concentration camps. Afterward, I spent time exploring Lublin’s old streets and quiet corners.
Another train carried me from Lublin to Kraków, where I immediately fell in love with the city. My first stay was in Old Town. I explored the streets, witnesses an amazing gathering of Solidarity of Poland and Ukraine. I visited the Wawel castle and explored the old Jewish quarter of Kazimierz. A few days later I moved closer to the area of the former ghetto, from where I visited the Ghetto sites, Schindler’s Factory and Płaszów labor camp.
From Kraków I took a bus to Oświęcim and walked to my nearby stay. The next three days, I spent my time on the grounds of Auschwitz and Birkenau, trying to comprehend the scale of suffering that occurred there.
Poland is a land of where the Nazis implemented the “Final Solution” the mass murder through shootings, forced labor, starvation, disease, beatings, and gas chambers. It's a land of imence suffering
Poland is a land of ancient trade, medieval kingdoms, knights and dragons, where great battles were fought, where the earth flowed with blood and screams echoed from gas chambers. Poland is also a land of courage, sacrifice, and solidarity.. I hope to return...
From Poland with love ~
Poland
2022
Warsaw
Warsaw, the capital of Poland has a rich history. It was the largest Jewish ghetto during WWII.
Paviak Prison
Pawiak Prison located in Warsaw. Primarily operated by the Gestapo during World War II. It was a site of beatings, torture and mass executions.
Warsaw Ghetto
A confined area in Warsaw where Jews were forcibly relocated, facing severe overcrowding, starvation, and eventual deportation to extermination centers.
Janusz Korszac
Janusz Korczak was a well-known doctor and author who ran a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw from 1911 to 1942. Korczak and his staff volunteered to stay with their children as German authorities deported them all to their deaths at Treblinka in August 1942.
Treblinka Extermination Center
Treblinka was a Nazi extermination camp located in occupied Poland, operational from July 1942 until October 1943, where over 900,000 Jews, as well as Romani people and other victims, were murdered. It was one of the execution sites of Operation Reinhard.
Warsaw Uprising
1944 armed rebellion by Poles.
Wola Massacre
Thousands of Poles massacred by German forces.
"I Felt The Baby Move"
Wanda Laurie survivor of the Wola Massacre
Lublin
Lublin, Poland
Belzec Extermination Center
Nazi extermination center
Józefów Massacre
1500 men, women and children rounded up and brought to the forsest outside the village of Josefow and shot.
Sobibor Extermination Center
Nazi extermination center in eastern Poland
Majdanek Labor Camp and Extermination Center
Majdanek was a concentration and extermination camp located just outside the city of Lublin, Poland. It was one of the first camps established by Nazi Germany after the invasion of Poland in 1939. The camp was officially opened in 1941 and was primarily intended for forced labor, but it later evolved into a site of mass murder.
Krakow
Krakow Ghetto
A confined area in Krakow where Jews were forcibly relocated, facing severe overcrowding, starvation, and eventual deportation to extermination centers.
Schindler Factory
Plaszow Laber Camp
Nazi Labor Camp
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Nazi Concentration Camp
Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Center
Nazi Extermination Center
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