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Warsaw Ghetto, Poland

Weekly Snapshot: Last Remnant of Warsaw Ghetto Wall

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Remnant of Ghetto Wall – Warsaw, Poland This is the last original remnant of the Warsaw Ghetto Wall, which enclosed the largest of all Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. The Warsaw Ghetto was established by the German Governor-General Hans Frank on October 16, 1940.  By his orders, all Jews in Warsaw [...]

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Schindler's Factory, Krakow, Poland

Weekly Snapshot: Oskar Schindler’s Factory

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Oskar Schindler’s Factory – Krakow, Poland This is where Oskar Schindler saved the lives of over a thousand Jews during the Holocaust.  In order to keep the Jews alive, he employed them in his enamelware and ammunition factories.  During the Holocaust, employed Jews (or any other imprisoned subjects) were not killed for no reason, something Nazi guards used [...]

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Auschwitz, Krakow, Poland

Weekly Snapshot: Shoes in Auschwitz

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  Auschwitz, Poland The experience of visiting the concentration camp of Auschwitz near Krakow, Poland, goes beyond just walking around the empty buildings that once housed some of the worst acts in human history.  Today, they also hold the material remains of many of the victims of the holocaust –most of them Jewish. Auschwitz was [...]

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Palace of Culture, Warsaw, Poland

Weekly Snapshot: Warsaw’s Palace of Culture

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Palace of Culture and Science – Warsaw, Poland The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw is the tallest building in Poland and the eighth tallest building in the European Union. The building was originally known as the Joseph Stalin Palace of Culture and Science, since Stalin himself gifted it to Poland, but in the [...]

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Krakow, Poland

Walk the Royal Road in Krakow

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This is a guest post by Nazeli K. Kyuregyan. Do you know which is Poland’s royal capital? Warsaw? No! It’s the beautiful “Royal Capital City of Krakow” – proudly standing on the shores of the Vistula River at the foot of the Carpatian Mountains. An often-disputed bridge between the Slavic East and the Germanic West, Krakow [...]

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Wolf’s Lair: Hitler’s Bunker in Poland

Wolf’s Lair: Hitler’s Bunker in Poland

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I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long.  It is 7:00am on a cold April morning in Warsaw.  I’m standing on the sidewalk holding my backpack like if I’m ready to hitchhike with the first car that pulls over.  I’m not.  I’m waiting for Anna from Intopoland to pick me up to go to Wolfsschanze [...]

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Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland

Weekly Snapshot: Salt Carved Last Supper

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The Last Supper at Wieliczka Salt Mine – Wieliczka, Poland This is a representation of Leonardo DaVinci’s Last Supper, carved in an underground chamber of the Wieliczka Salt Mine, located in the town of Wieliczka in Poland. This piece of art is carved out of salt, in one of the walls of the underground cathedral. The [...]

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Street in Warsaw, Poland

When a Destination Challenges Your Agenda

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We all travel for different reasons and choose our destinations based on a series of goals and criteria; be it self-exploration, cultural richness, a different experience, an escape to something, or countless more. Normally those reasons stay in a very personal level and they silently generate the energy that drives our journey.  But what if [...]

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Auschwitz-Birkenau

Weekly Snapshot: Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Auschwitz Concentration Camp Entrance – Auschwitz, Poland Auschwitz was a series of concentration and extermination camps built in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War. It was the largest of the German concentration camps, consisting of Auschwitz I (the base camp), Auschwitz II-Birkenau (the extermination camp), and Auschwitz III-Monowitz (a labor camp) The camps were [...]

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Hitlers Bunker at the Wolf's Lair

Weekly Snapshot: Hitler’s Bunker at The Wolf’s Lair

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Hitler’s Bunker – Ketrzyn, Poland Wolf’s Lair was Adolf Hitler’s headquarters in East Prussia. Hitler spent nearly half of World War II (over 800 days) in this compound, which contains over 80 buildings including massive bunkers for high-ranking German Officials like Göring, Bormann, and Hitler, among others. It was here where decisions like the construction [...]

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