{"id":7180,"date":"2024-05-23T22:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelseefeel.com\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2025-06-20T08:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:58:34","slug":"mia-sygkinitiki-periigisi-sto-aousvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelseefeel.com\/en\/mia-sygkinitiki-periigisi-sto-aousvi\/","title":{"rendered":"A moving tour of Auschwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no living creature that breathes or crawls on the earth that is more wretched than man! Homer\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It is often contradictory to want to visit a place where so many people were killed because you were touched by the movies. The Oscar-winning \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d and \u201cLife is Beautiful\u201d had created for years the desire to see the Auschwitz camps up close and pay tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. We cannot even imagine the emotions experienced by the people who were imprisoned and martyred there. However, what is also written on a wall of the camp is very significant: \u201cThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The blocks at Auschwitz I<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, being in the Krakow<\/a> We took the train and found ourselves in the town of O\u015bwi\u0119cim, as the Poles call it. At the end of this article there is all the information to organize a visit to Auschwitz. But first we will give you some facts about its history that are good to know.<\/p>\n

Monument \u2013 museum \u2013 Research and information center<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The Auschwitz Museum was founded in 1947 to preserve and commemorate the victims of Nazi crimes and to inform the public about the Holocaust. Approximately 1.1 million people were killed in the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camps, most of whom were Jews, but also included Roma, Poles, Russians, Jehovah's Witnesses, dissidents, prisoners of war, and homosexuals.<\/p>\n

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The double electric fence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the museum there are intact remains, as they were found during the liberation of the camps, 2 tons of human hair, over 80 thousand shoes, approximately 3.8 thousand suitcases, 40 kilos of glasses, 460 artificial limbs, etc.... Horror.<\/p>\n

The concentration camps<\/strong><\/h5>\n

\u03a4\u03bf Auschwitz I<\/strong> was the original concentration camp built by the Nazis on the site of pre-war Polish army barracks. It also served as the administrative center for the entire Auschwitz camp complex and was expanded by the Nazis as needed. It included administrative buildings, prisoner living quarters, storage facilities, a rudimentary infirmary, gas chambers, and crematoriums.<\/p>\n

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The incinerators<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the camp gate stands the famous Nazi iron sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free), a cynical slogan that concealed the humiliation, exploitation, and killing of the people there. Thousands of prisoners passed through it every day on their way to long, hard labor. Many of them never returned.<\/p>\n

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The gate of Auschwitz I<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The notorious SS doctor Josef Mengele also operated in this camp, conducting pseudoscientific research and experiments on humans.<\/p>\n

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The euphemistic hospital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Touring the buildings currently in Auschwitz I is a shocking experience, as many of them have been organized as museums and provide evidence and data about the Nazi crimes, lists and photographs of prisoners, information about how these people ended up there, and stories from their lives before, after, and during their incarceration in the camps.<\/p>\n\r\n