Krakow was remarkably undamaged from the war. It’s beautiful to see the old churches and buildings providing pre-war architecture.

We visited the Salt Mines last night. It was a really cool tour and provided for several opportunities to lick the salt walls. Thankfully, no one in our party decided to partake, other than tasting some of the water from the mine. There was an incredibly cool underground lake where we got to make a wish & toss a coin. It reminded me of the Trevi Fountain in Rome. Alec enjoyed the salt mine & thought it was the coolest thing we’ve done so far.

I wanted to tour the factory before leaving Krakow. It’s a very nice museum, I would recommend it. The museum is a WWII museum, not heavily focused on Schindler’s Factory, but just being in the building is surreal. Thankfully there were Nazi’s with good hearts helping local people, like Oskar Schindler. I’m glad we came here to experience Auschwitz-Birkenau Camps, but I think I’m ready to move on. There were 68,482 Jews living in Krakow before the war. There were 8,753 left when it was over. But of course the Jews were not the only targets, the Polish in Krakow were also “liquidated” by over 40,000. “Liquidated” is not my term. It’s the term used at Auschwitz.