Jewish Poland 4th day - Zbylitowska Gora & Auschwitz-Birkenau - Thursday 1 December 2016
December 1st 2016 On the bus to go to our first stop. We drove through the chocolate box village of Zbylitowska Gora to see the place that Israeli children have named The Children’s Forest. I am not sure that we were prepared for what we were going to see as the village was so pretty in the snow. We walked through an empty wasteland past a memorial to the Poles who were massacred by the Nazis. In June 1942 about
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Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived near the middle of the 10th century. Its golden age occurred in the 16th century. During the following century, the strengthening of the gentry and internal disorders weakened the nation. In a series of ... ... read more 
