ooking back on the seventeen days spent in East European countries,I have an almost dizzying sense of so many experiences. Some uplifting and exciting; others more of a depressing nature. Up until twenty five years ago, these people were being oppressed under the evil yoke of Russia’s Communism; and before that the tyranny of the …
e visit the Extermination Camps in Auschwitz and Birkenau today in an attempt to better understand the historical background and the Holocaust. I really didn’t look forward to going and confronting the realities of this terrible chapter of 20th century History, but I’m glad I did. We were in luck with our guide, a well-educated …