Today I took a bus to the Auschwitz concentration camp. I walked through Auschwitz I, which is the first camp and is best preserved. I saw some of the first gas chambers here, a wall where it said thousands of people were shot and killed here. Then nearby I walked through Auschwitz-Birkenau, which is the second, larger camp. This is where you see the railroad tracks where prisoners were unloaded, some of the buildings where prisoners lived (most have been burnt down), and ruins of the gas chambers/crematoriums (where you see a sign saying hundreds of thousands of people died at this spot).
I went there and back with someone else at the hostel, which I think is the first time on the trip I’ve not spent the whole day out alone. Afterwards, I took an 8PM sleeper train to Berlin, Germany.