Poland Archives · Terry Danuser https://www.terrydanuser.com/category/terry-travels/poland/ Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:11:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.terrydanuser.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-terry-new-logo-2-32x32.png Poland Archives · Terry Danuser https://www.terrydanuser.com/category/terry-travels/poland/ 32 32 Warsaw https://www.terrydanuser.com/warsaw-photos/ https://www.terrydanuser.com/warsaw-photos/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2021 22:48:00 +0000 https://terrydanuser.com/?p=6783 While the people are warm, the city is shadowed by a tragic history. Those I’ve talked to seem to hate the Soviets more than the Nazis, though both left a grim legacy. Eighty-five percent of this city was leveled, kind of like an Alabama town after a tornado, but nature had nothing to do with […]

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]]> While the people are warm, the city is shadowed by a tragic history. Those I’ve talked to seem to hate the Soviets more than the Nazis, though both left a grim legacy. Eighty-five percent of this city was leveled, kind of like an Alabama town after a tornado, but nature had nothing to do with this destruction. I teared up at the site of the Jewish ghetto. Awful, just awful. And that’s what a vacation should be about–the sins of the past.

WRITTEN 03/09/2013

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]]> https://www.terrydanuser.com/warsaw-photos/feed/ 0 Krakow https://www.terrydanuser.com/krakow/ https://www.terrydanuser.com/krakow/#respond Wed, 28 Oct 2020 02:01:39 +0000 https://terrydanuser.com/?p=994 Kraków is tricky, especially shopping at the flea market where the treasures of those slaughtered are now available for a bargain. The Nazis didn’t obliterate this pristine Medieval town because they chose it as the General Government, an Eastern outpost of the Third Reich. And they built their largest and most efficient extermination camps on […]

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]]> Kraków is tricky, especially shopping at the flea market where the treasures of those slaughtered are now available for a bargain.

The Nazis didn’t obliterate this pristine Medieval town because they chose it as the General Government, an Eastern outpost of the Third Reich. And they built their largest and most efficient extermination camps on the outskirts, the place where they perfected murdering thousands of people daily.

Without diminishing any number of horrifying atrocities, what happened here is different. It just is.

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