It seems like I am, generally, an incompetent person. For example, for the last hour, as I had my coffee here in Budapest, I attempted to download the fantastic pictures I took yesterday only to discover I had deleted them all. Fortunately for you, we toured quite a few places that did not allow pictures […]
The long, long road to Budapest
Before I tell you about how I got our Krakow-Budapest driver lost and how everyone in the van seemed to hate me, you should know that Ron totally lied about how much underwear he brought and so he’s no better a person than I am. And in my defense, I didn’t want to stop for […]
Wrapping up Krakow
So now we are finishing up with our four days in Krakow and I’ve seen a lot of things I don’t particularly want to write about but I am glad I have come all this way so that whatever essence of human spirit or human hope that remains at Auschwitz and Birkenau knows that I […]
My trail of criminal acts stretches across Europe
I can’t believe we’ve only had Day One of what will be 7 days of World War II sites. It’s hard to see these places and not feel incredible anger and a bit of vulnerability for being Jewish. Krakow is full of preserved memories and homages to the plight of the Jewish people killed here […]