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metaphorge ([personal profile] metaphorge) wrote2007-01-06 03:25 am

Kościół Mariacki


DSCF0347, originally uploaded by metaphorge.

Long exposure shot of Kościół Mariacki, in the Rynek Główny of Kraków, Poland. Many more photos of Kraków's Old Town (including many more long exposures) can be seen here.

Auschwitz-Birkenau is tomorrow edit: Sunday.

[identity profile] green-fae.livejournal.com 2007-01-07 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Being prepared intellectually did nothing to lessen the visceral impact of actually being there.
On my tour we had an actual survivor and his daughter with us. When we got to the room of piles of hair I was completely overwhelmed.

[identity profile] vandringar.livejournal.com 2007-01-07 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That was the very same room where it hit me incredibly hard. Up until that point, even knowing I was at the site, the reality of what happened there just didn't kick in. It happened again at Birkenau, when I was in the tower overlooking the site, and seeing the vastness of the camp left me utterly stunned.