POLAND ~Auschwitz-Birkenau - UNESCO ~

...I can only imagine the feeling you would get walking throughout this place....two of the most tragic sites in Europe... Thanks Magda!!
"THE ONE WHO DOES NOT REMEMBER HISTORY  IS BOUND TO LIVE THROUGH IT AGAIN"                                                            George Santayana quote at the Auschwitz Museum

From the back of card 1:
Initially, whole Jewish families were marched for some two kilometres on foot to the gas chambers.
From 1944, transports were brought straight to the crematoriums.

Stamps:
Signs of the Zodiac
(Issued 10-07-1996)
Polish cities-Sieradz
(Issued 29-07-2005)

From the back of card 2:
In Auschwitz-Birkenau 5 crematoriums with gas chambers were in operation. 6-7 kilograms of Cyclone B gas was enough tot kill about 1500 people within just over a dozen minutes.

It is estimated that around 1.6 million people were killed in the Auschwitz camps.
While Auschwitz was built for labor, Birkenau was built for extermination.

A Martyrdom Museum was set up here in 1947, and in 1979 Auschwitz-Birkenau was added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites