The place we did not visit, yet one that is reported by many to be a life changing experience, was Auschwitz. Our apartment in Kazimierz (the district that had been central to Jewish life pre WWII) faced a central square. On the same side of the street as our apartment was the oldest synagogue and cemetery - taken over by the Nazi's and made into an office, although not destroyed. Thankfully, it houses a small but active congregation once more and has been reinstated to its former place in the community. The plaque above, commemorating an entire family, if not bloodline, of people murdered was the only one in English - but as my title suggests, was one among many.
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