Traveling

My mother is a Holocaust survivor and author. In 1995, fifty years after her liberation from the Nazi concentration camps, she, then age 72, and her four daughters, and a professional videographer journeyed from our home in Oregon to a tiny mountain village in northwest Romania to her hometown of Sighet.

We found her house she hadn't seen in 50 years. We were even allowed to go inside. We retraced her steps to Auschwitz concentration camp in southern Poland, stayed in a convent right next to the camp, saw the barracks where she was interned. Then, we made our way to Bergen-Belsen in Germany, the camp from which she was liberated by the British and American forces 50 years prior.

It was an incredible journey on many levels. I planned the details of the trip, nearly in its entirety, on the Internet. There were many aspects our travel agent simply was unable to help us with, but the Internet resources proved invaluable!

Geri

 

 

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