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My trip to Poland Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 First we went into a room where they showed us a movie about how the conditions were in this camp when Hitler sat on the power. After the movie, we went in two groups with a person who guided us around the camp. It was horrible to see all the cruel and evil things the Nazis did to people. We saw tons of hair, which had belonged to the persons who had been killed in the gaschambers. We also took a look at the crematoria, inside this building there were ovens to burn the dead corpses with. We saw cells that were 90 * 90 sq.cm. In these cells they managed to put up to five persons. One cell was totally dark with no air ventilation, so when they put over 30 persons in this cell almost all of them died of suffocation. We also laid down flowers and read a poem at the execution wall where the Germans used to shoot some of the prisoners. It was really strange to see the place where so many people of all kinds had had their last few seconds of life. All the barracks in Auschwitz were horse stables designed to hold 52 horses, but Hitler rebuilt them so that they could fit up to 400 prisoners. As the war went on more and more prisoners were brought to Birkenau. The Nazis ordered that as many as 1000 prisoners should sleep in the same barracks. When many persons are forced to live in a such a small place, under so terrible conditions many of them will become ill. And if you got ill it was an unfailing death sentence, because if you were ill, you couldn't work and then you weren't needed. After we had seen all of Birkenau we went to a place which I don't recall the name of, but we were supposed to hear some stories from an eye witness. An eye witness is a person who has seen and experienced war. After the meeting we went back to the hotel and fell asleep. Day 4 We went around in the city for many hours and I got pretty tired in the end, but when we started to drive el-cars, everything went a lot better. We actually had a lot of fun, too. My mates and I whistled at some of the women while we drove past. I bought a chessboard after a couple of hours. We also went to eat at MacDonald's. In the evening we went to something called Folklore. The performance was at a hotel, but first we got a hot meal and some bad tasting bread. The dancers were great and the atmosphere was even greater. We were singing and having a great time. Håvard actually stepped out on the floor and danced with them. When he stood out there on the floor and danced I laughed quite a bit. After we had been to the Folklore evening we went back to the hotel, Håvard and I played chess. I beat him twice. Day 5 Inside the building the personnel gave us some information about the mine, and they also told us that we had to go 380 steps to the bottom. It was only 377 steps so they missed by 3, but I was still a bit exhausted when I got all the way down. All the walls were made of salt and it was actually a bit cold down there. When we had been walking for a while we came to St. Kinga's Chapel, actually the biggest underground chapel in the whole world. It was beautiful. At the end of the tour we took an elevator to the top. Day 6 After Hard Rock Café, we went to the "Mauermuseum". At the museum there were many interesting and exciting stories about people who had escaped from the GDR. Here is one of the stories: "A man called Robert and his friend were planning to escape from the GDR. They were going to do it with help by a wire that was leading electricity. In the middle of a rainy night they went down the power line, after a 140 minutes ride they came across the border and were saved from the DDR." After the trip to the "Mauermuseum" we went on the bus and took off to our hotel. Day 7 Day 8 Conclusion |
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