Krakow and Aushwitz

We arrived in Krakow in the middle of a once a year fundraiser. There was this huge band stage set up in the middle of the town square with colored lights sweeping the entire population of Poland, gathered in the tiny square. They were playing polish rock and roll and at 10 o'clock, when they started playing a Bob Marley song, everyone dissapeared within seconds. Bizzar. The people are so friendly, and the city has a very metropolitain feel to it - almost like a mini New York.
Aushwitz is hard to explain. There was room after room of suitcases and baby's shoes that were tied together so they would not loose one of them. We saw the bolts of fabric made from womens hair that was like any fabric you would see in the states, and hallways of photos that the SS took when they were registering people. Some of them are smiling.
There were rooms with photos and information of people who were starved. Videos of bodies burning and children post-experimentation. Apparently, 500 children survived the camp. There were tours of the gas chambers and crematoriums and empty silouetts of hanging platforms riddled around.
There were guard towers everywhere and the mocking "work will set you free" slogan at the enterance.
By the time we got there, Birkenaw was closed, so we did not see the sorting platform or the major creamatorium.