Auschwitz Tour

Auschwitz Blog Pic-1In March of 2015 the InMunich Tours Dachau Guides took an extended tour to both Auschwitz I & Auschwitz Birkenau.

This was something all of us had wanted to do for a very long time.

Regardless of being very experienced guides at the Dachau Memorial Site, it had a profound effect on all of us. The short film below explains our reasons for the trip, and what we found.

Managing Partner of InMunich Tours.
Fully Memorial Qualified Guide at the Dachau Memorial Site.

Kraków

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View from the Castle across the river Vistula

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Wawel Castle

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Jewish Ghetto – Memorial to Jews deported from the Ghetto. The square is covered in chairs, and each chair represents 1000 victims.

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The Wawel Dragon by his cave on the Vistula.

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Jon, Peter, Adam, Scott, Keith & Marcin. Sadly Tom who was also with us is missing from this photo :-(

In March of 2015 the InMunich Guides visited both the city of Kraków & the Auschwitz Memorial Site.

Kraków is an amazing city!

We were staying in the old Jewish Quarter and managed to take a tour with the fantastic “Krakow Free Walking Tour” company. The Jewish Krakow Tour covered a big walk through the Kazmierz district, gave the full history of the Jews within Poland, visited the site of the WW2 Jewish Ghetto & finished up at Oskar Schindlers Factory. It was really interesting to hear about the “other” Schindler, the womanising gambler who spied on his own country for the Nazi’s – not quite what Hollywood portrays in the movie! Big thanks to Pawel, our great guide.

We also did their regular Free Walking Tour of Kraków city centre which covered around 1400 years of history! Big thanks to Tomek for that. It is truly amazing how much a city can change in the just 25 years since the fall of the Iron Curtain. The transformation of Munich is on-going, and has been since 1945, but Kraków has also been through some astonishing changes.

I will definately be going back soon :-)

 

Managing Partner of InMunich Tours.
Fully Memorial Qualified Guide at the Dachau Memorial Site.