Place: Auschwitz Birkenau, Poland
Weather: Rain, 53/61F.
Route: From Prague 459 km east on D1.
Significance: This is obviously a much different place than most UNESCO sites. Instead of celebrating the creativity or beauty that humans are capable of - it acknowledges the cruelty that people can have towards one another. Over 1.5 million individuals, many of the Jews, came through the gates of Auschwitz, to be tortured, starved and then killed.
Website: UNESCO World Heritage SiteImages:
The sign which means "work will set you free" that 1.5 million walked under (from whc.unesco.org)
The "death wall" where many prisoners were shot (from whc.unesc.org)
The sign which means "work will set you free" that 1.5 million walked under (from whc.unesco.org)
The "death wall" where many prisoners were shot (from whc.unesc.org)
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