Deb & Dean's European adventure

  Hangar-7 at Salzburg Airport is a unique building which houses the historical Flying Bulls aircraft fleet and a collection of Formula 1 race cars and its all FREE WOW  🤩   👍🏁 https://www.hangar-7.com/en/

  After the very sombre tour of Auschwitz and Birkenau the last part of our tour day was spent on a 2 1/2 hour tour at a salt mine in Wieliczka. Operating for over 700 years with 240 km of tunnels and descending 300 metres, our tour only saw a tiny portion of the mine. We went 160 m  below the surface and saw the magnificent carvings and rooms constructed from salt. Mainly timber was used as the other construction material, due to salt’s corrosive quality metals cannot be used in the salt mine.  UNESCO heritage site.  Salt crystal and wooden chandeliers

 A day tour to Auschwitz and Birkenau is an experience  which deeply affected me. Concentration camps which were killing machines for 1.3 million people. We should never forget these atrocities.  Auschwitz below.  The gas chambers entry.  700 people at a time were gassed in this room. Babies, children men and women, taking up to 20 minutes to die.  Then burned in the crematorium, the next room.  Birkenau below was  purpose built concentration camp for POW but it’s main purpose was as an extermination camp with 5 gas chambers and crematoriums. On arrival at Birkenau those selected as unable to work were sent straight to the gas chambers. If you were selected to work most POW’s died within 5 months of arrival at Birkenau.  Only rubble remains of the 5 crematoriums at Birkenau. Crematorium number 4 was set fire to and damaged beyond repair in 1944 by rebel Jewish prisoners who were subsequently put to death. Tbe other 4 crematoriums at Birkenau...