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If this doesn't work, I blame Matthew Stenberg.
This is me and my mom. I just like this one.
These are part of an amazing park in the middle of Warsaw. It's where the kings used to summer. The first thing the guy built when they opened it was a house for his mistresses.
These are two of my Jewish cousins in front of the Jewish Ghetto Memorial and part of old town Warsaw. 400,000 Jews were put into the small area of the Ghetto before they were shipped to concentration camps. Most of them died there. During the war 80% of the city was completely destroyed, and all of the cities citizens had evacuated or been killed. I can't even imagine the destruction. The soviets rebuilt the entire old town exactly as it was. Probably one of the few good things they did there.
"Work will set you free."
They took everything from everyone when they got to the camps. There are huge rooms with pots, suitcases. shoes, clothes, prayer clothes, even prosthetic legs. There are huge displays of the hair they collected when they shaved their heads. The Nazis made cloth out of it. After the war, people tested the cloth and found traces of the gases used in the chambers in it.
I still can't believe I stood here in this room; right where so many horrible things happened and so many people died.
My favorite church.
The Polish really like their Pope. The mountain in the background is the Sleeping Knight. You can see the profile of him. If anyone attacks the town (which is as south as you can go, all the way to slovakia) the knight will wake up and fight for them.
This was my favorite part of the trip. It was an old cemetary which is decorated with all sorts of art because there is a scuptlure school in the town. It was so beautiful. They just let flowers and grass grow all over. It was amazing. I think I took some pretty good pictures.
These are from my favorite town, Gdansk which is way up North on the Baltic Sea. It was an amazing place. It's also where the ship yards where Solidarity started are. Unfortunetely, the Polish people seemed way less interested in that whole thing (You know, helping with the fall of the iron curtain, that little thing) then we did. There was nothing about it anywhere.
We went to about a million old towns, churches and old castles. This is my favorite picture from any of them. Everything is so detailed even though they were built in 1400 whatever. The face is pretty cute too.
This is just my best picture. It's from the stupidiest thing we did, which was visit a reinactment type village. Lame place. But I'm proud of this picture. I was getting pretty good with my dads fancy camera by the end.
So, I have no idea if that is going to work. I hope so. Will someone tell me what the hell I'm doing wrong if it didn't?