So, we are in a hotel now in Warsaw, Poland. This is what greeted us at breakfast.
I know we should be counting our blessings, but we really didn't like anything at breakfast. It looked fantastic and we tried it all, but I'm thinking we had better eating in Nanjing and Benoni than we have so far in Poland. Might take us a while here to get rid of food aversions. We shall see.
The meat wasn't done. The photo on the right is bacon and bread. No thank you.
So, we pretty much figured out the public transportation system within the first few minutes.
And this nice man sold us some REAL breakfast before we jumped on the tram!
On our way to a museum we made a stop at Umschlagplatz. Text below is from the web.
The Umschlagplatz (German: collection point or reloading point) was a holding area set up by Nazi Germany adjacent to a railway station in occupied Poland, where the ghettoised Jews were assembled for deportation to death camps during the ghetto liquidation.[1] The largest such collection point consisted of a city square in occupied Warsaw next to the Warsaw Ghetto, used for several months during daily deportations of 254,000 – 265,000 Warsaw Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp.[2][3] A monument was erected in 1988 on Stawki Street, where the Umschlagplatz was located, to commemorate the deportation victims. Another prominent example included the Radogoszcz station Umschlagplatz adjacent to the Łódź Ghetto where prisoners were brought under military escort for deportations directly to Chełmno (Kulmhof) and Auschwitz extermination camps.[4][5]
For logistical reasons, the victims awaiting the arrival of Holocaust trains were often kept at the Umschlagplatzovernight during Operation Reinhard,[6] the deadliest phase of the Holocaust in Poland.[7] The same term in the German language is used commonly to denote a place where all goods for rail transport are handled.[8]
This kind soul confirmed my notes about which tram to catch to the museum.
Such lovely people here.
The Polin Museum History Zydow Polskich
This museum has you go on a journey of a thousand years (from the Middle Ages until today) in 8 different galleries.
It is basically 1000-year history of Polish Jews.
We ate lunch at the museum. I should have taken pictures of the choices, but it was an amazing selection of Jewish cuisine and Israeli wine. We ate some food and chose Coke to drink.
The park outside of the museum.
We hope to be in bed early tonight. We are having a big ole' long day tomorrow.
The main reason we came over here!
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