Poland - Auschwitz

To an unsuspecting motorist, the sleepy, slightly run-down town of Oswiecim might seem like many others in this part of southern Poland. Yet sixty years ago the German occupying forces opened a concentration camp here. Soon afterwards they evacuated the nearby village of Brzezinka and created a much larger camp, covering some 425 acres. What was to go on there was to be veiled in the utmost secrecy and a forty kilometre zone was enclosed to make the area inaccessible. As a matter of course, the two places were then given German names, Auschwitz and Birkenau.

Poland - Torun

Toruń is an ancient city in northern Poland, on the Vistula River.

Listed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites since 1997, Toruń has many monuments of architecture beginning from the Middle Ages, including 200 military structures. The city is famous for having preserved almost intact its medieval spatial layout and many Gothic buildings, all built from brick, including monumental churches, the Town Hall and many burgher houses.

The medieval old town of Toruń is the birthplace of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.