Month: June 2021

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers. Over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives there. That statement is on the homepage of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum website and there’s almost nothing further …

Poland

I have to admit that both Steven and I were disappointed when our plans to visit Iceland had to be shelved and Poland became our new destination. In my mind, Poland was, at best, a transit country, a grey, postwar, …