Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Highlights of Study Abroad Trip - Warsaw

Fragment of the Warsaw Ghetto wall:




One block of tenements from the Warsaw Ghetto:






Zapiekanki:
Instead of pizza sauce, ketchup:


Breakfast in Lodz:


Streets in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto (Lodz):




Radagast Station:










What Lodz might look like if it were renovated:


Anatewka restaurant (a "Jewish-themed" restaurant in Lodz)








Mugging for the camera:


On the train back to Warsaw, with views of the Polish countryside:










The Palace of Culture, Stalin's "Gift" to Poland:


Lunch in Old Town, Lublin:














Majdanek:












Canisters of Zyklon B:




The Gas Chamber:








Items taken from prisoners/victims:
Shoes:


Hair:


Drawings done by prisoners of other prisoners:




A model of the camp:


The "Shrine":








To the surviving barracks:






The crematorium:








The trenches where over 10,000 Lublin Jews were shot in 1943:




The urn holding two tons of human ash:




The train back to Warsaw through the Polish plain:















A monument to the Warsaw 'Rising:


Breakfast near the Old City of Warsaw:




The Gate to the Old City:


The Rynek:


The Castle:
























The new stadium for the FIFA games next year:


Gessler Restaurant (in the Michelin Guide), in the Nowy Swiat neighborhood:












Coffee in Blikl Cafe:




Our hotel in Warsaw:


Touring the Memorial at the Site of the Treblinka Death Camp:


























Model of the Camp in the Treblinka Museum:






Memorials in the Former Warsaw Ghetto:








The New Museum for the History of Polish Jews (under construction):


Umschlagplatz:


Former SS building on Umschlagplatz:




More street art:




The Janusz Korczak Orphanage:






The Palace of Culture:














Our second hotel in Warsaw:


Do it yourself heart health:


Dinner at Vogue/Style






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