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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935142175646177346.post-79222966197301704432014-09-12T17:04:00.000-07:002014-09-12T17:04:02.775-07:00ToursNot a single one of the guided tours devoted to the Holocaust would miss a visit to the infamous Auschwitz and Birkenau <br />concentration camps. Many areas of these camps have been destroyed as they were a poor reminder of the horrible things <br />that happened there but there are several sites left to see and to think upon.<br /><br />By this time, many travelers on guided tours of the Holocaust run the risk of being depressed by what they’ve witnessed. <br />For this reason, as the tour winds southward again, a stop in Prague, in the Czech Republic, might be a good idea. <br />It’s a beautiful city with castles and lovely architecture to see and explore.<br /><br />While in the Czech Republic, many guided tours related to the Holocaust will take you to the site of the village of Lidice <br />and the memorial there. It was the site where, in 1942, all male residents of the village were massacred and the remaining <br />villagers were deported before the village was destroyed in its entirety.<br /><br />Camp Mauthausen in Austria and Dachau in Germany will round out most guided tours involving the Holocaust. <br />Both are infamous camps and are a big part of the history the Holocaust has to show the people of today. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935142175646177346.post-39246219361894856382014-09-12T17:03:00.002-07:002014-09-12T17:03:42.383-07:00Insightful Guided ToursThere are few guided tours of Europe more poignant than a tour of the major sites of the Holocaust—the extermination of <br />millions of people in the 1930s and 1940s. Tours such as this actually exist for the traveler who wants to see a side of <br />European contemporary history that is rarely available to the average traveler.<br /><br />Guided tours involving Holocaust sites often begin in Amsterdam as many flights from the US end up there first. In <br />Amsterdam, you can visit the historic Anne Frank house that has been turned into a museum of related artifacts. You can <br />also visit the Corrie Ten Boom House, where a Dutch family hid many refugees from German rule. Corrie Ten Boom was featured <br />in the book she wrote, The Hiding Place, which was eventually turned into a movie.<br /><br />The next logical stop on your tour is the Westerbork Transit Camp and later on, the Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp. <br />Anne Frank died of typhus there and over 50,000 others died there as well. Guided tours of this area will show you what <br />these people went through and will provide you with detailed information about the site’s history.<br />Many guided tours of Holocaust areas will show you the Wannsee Villa where the decision to exterminate the Jews was made. <br />The villa is located in Berlin, which is also the site of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Your tour guide will likely take <br />you to both places in Berlin.<br /><br />While in Germany, you’ll see the Buchenwald camp in Weimar. Besides Jewish prisoners, many political prisoners, Communists <br />and those involved in medicine and the arts were imprisoned there and used for slave labor. Buchenwald was one of the few <br />concentration camps that existed on German soil. It’s a poignant visit but one worth seeing.<br />Next, many guided tours will take you to Krakow, Poland. You’ll visit the Treblinka train station, one of the few remnants <br />left of the death camp. Treblinka was one of three death camps in which no one actually lived there and all prisoners sent <br />to the camp were killed. On a lighter note, you can see the original “Shindler’s Factory” where some laborers were treated <br />considerably better than their counterparts.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0