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SKIERNIEWICE - Polish city in 2016 - Travel in Poland

Skierniewice is a town in central Poland with 49,132 inhabitants (2007), situated in the Łódź Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Skierniewice Voivodship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Skierniewice County. The town is situated almost exactly halfway between Łódź and Warsaw.
Skierniewice gained municipal rights in 1457. It has a famous railway station that was once part of the historic Warsaw-Vienna Railway. On September 15, 1884 it was the setting for the meeting of the Three Emperors' League.
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Visiting Poland: Thoughts, Reflections, Analysis

In deference to the rude comments I have been receiving: I approached Poland with anything but a narrow perspective. I ate Polish food, participated in Polish customs, intentionally interacted exclusively with Polish people (in fact no fellow Americans) so as to be further immersed, learned some Polish, drank Polish vodka, went to Polish bars, listened to Polish music and went to Polish clubs. I not only visited cities, but also rural areas like Sochaczew. Additionally, we were not speaking excessively loud nor with unnecessary levels of confidence in German. Make all the assumptions you want, but prepared to be wrong.

WARSAW, EXPLORING the CHOPIN Monument at Łazienki Park (POLAND)

SUBSCRIBE: - This Chopin Statue is a large bronze statue of Frédéric Chopin that now stands in the upper part of Warsaw's Royal Baths Park also known as Łazienki Park. Filmed right after a very snowy day, it was absolutely freezing that day,,, Vic Stefanu, vstefanu@yahoo.com

OPUSZCZONE POLE MINOWE I LOTNISKO - Urbex History

Zatrzymani przez milicję w Kazachstanie - Urbex History

Wyprawa do opuszczonego miasta w Kazachstanie co może pójść nie tak? Łukasz i Konrad pojechali na urlop do Astany ale nie byliby sobą gdyby nie chcieli nagrać Urbexu. Pojechali więc do miejscowości Arkałyk gdzie poznali lokalna gościnność

Railway station at Bełżec

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The below film shows the railway station at Bełżec, filmed in June 2013. In the film I describe what happened here during 1942 when the nearby death camp killed at least 434,000 people. The station itself however is much older and as it was a border station had facilities which were much greater than its passenger and goods traffic would require. Today the station operates only very limited services. I also describe my first visit here in November 1995.

The Nazi death camp at Bełżec operated from 16 March 1942 until July 1943 although mass killings stopped at the end of November 1942. During this short time, at least 434,000 people were killed here, not only the Jewish population of the Lublin district and Galicia but also people were brought here from other countries including Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia.

It was here that the Jewish populations of such large communities such as Lublin, Kraków and Lwów were brought to be murdered. In this film we can see the names of the towns where the victims came from.

Bełżec was chosen due to the access from various railway lines there. It was formerly a border point between Austria to the south and the Russian Empire to the north until the Treaty of Versailles placed it in Poland. The early twentieth century engine sheds which had been built to house Austrian locomotives were used to store the possessions of the victims.

Killing was done via what appears to have been an engine from a Soviet BT tank in gas chambers which were little more than garden sheds with two walls with the interior filled with sand. The bodies were buried in massive pits dug by a group of around 500 prisoners who were replaced as they grew weaker. The SS garrison was only around 20 - 30 people supported by around 200 auxilliaries made up largely of former Soviet POWs.

The first victims came from the Lublin ghetto with around 1,600 - 2,000 people being killed every day but later this was stepped up as the wave of killings took in other towns in the region.

After the killings stopped in November 1942, a group of POWs stayed behind to dig up the bodies and burn them on three or four pyres - work that took until the summer of 1943 when the SS decided that they had had enough and stopped the work. This is why some mass graves were not opened. The prisoners were then sent to Sobibór where they were murdered.

Opuszczona Cegielnia - Przemysłowy Urbex

Pozwól zabrać się w zapomniany przez ludzi świat cegieł, pustaków i olbrzymich pieców opuszczonej cegielni. Miejsce to leży odłogiem w jednej z Polskich miejscowości, gdzie nie zdążył go jeszcze zupełnie zniszczyć czas i wandale.

Wyprawa nie byłaby możliwa gdyby nie GoUrbex oraz Urban Seekers z którymi razem wyjechałem w podróż. Specjalne podziękowania należą się wspomnianemu GoUrbex za użyczenie głosu i mikrofonu dzięki czemu możecie obejrzeć film bez trwałego uszkodzenia słuchu.

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Muzyka na licencji CC:
-Long Journey by Alex Stoner
-Flight Of The Mind by Max Tune

Warsaw Old Town Market Place (POL - Rynek Starego Miasta)