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Message: [QUOTE="cohenzone, post: 3621219, member: 504"] We visited Auschwitz and Birkenau two years ago, Dachau about a dozen years ago. While Birkenau, sister camp to Auschwitz is considerably larger, Auschwitz is in most ways more depressing not just because it contains the rooms with thousands of pairs of shoes, of children’s things, of eyeglasses, of wheelchairs and prostheses, but because it looks almost too nice. Well maintained brick buildings, a geometric symmetry in the layout, every bit the military post it was constructed to be. Sobering but should be visited if you get to visit anywhere near Krakow. Not to be too down, Poland was generally great. Good food, nice people, nice towns and ‘Gdańsk where the Solidarity movement started is a wonderful city. Warsaw, almost totally a reconstructed city to resemble it before the Nazis ruined it, has a fantastic modern museum of the history of Jews in Poland. If the virus ever gets outs of the way, Poland is worth the trip, and historically not a major destination for US tourists. [/QUOTE]