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You can tour the engineering labs (including nuclear facilities) on Cal Day, which just passed: http://coe.berkeley.edu/alumni/alumni-events/cal-day.html

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Believe me I do not want to put you off visiting Auschwitz. If I had my way everybody would go.

Be aware that you will see images of incredible horror. Photos of people who have been starved, beaten, worked near to death then gassed.

When you visit the original camp (Auschwitz 1) you will see rooms filled with human hair and the cloth that was made with it. Rooms filled with suitcases carrying the names of the poor unfortunates who will never collect them. Rooms full of glasses, shoes and, most poignantly, the belongings, toys and clothes of little children.
The worst of it is, this is not the true horror.At the end of the tour of Camp 1 you will be taken to the original morgue for the camp. You can skip this building if you wish but I urge you to go inside. This room, next to a small crematorium, was turned into one of the original gas chambers.
I think that it is a necessary evil to go inside to understand the place.

As you leave the crematorium you will see the gallows that was erected to hang the commandant of the camp.

I have been a researcher and historian of WW2 for 30 years and hoped to view Auschwitz with dispassionate eyes but I will admit that when I passed that gallows I fervently wished that it had hurt.

When you head for Auschwitz II (Birkenau) you enter into hell.
An area around the size of the small town I live in. Designed for the incarceration, torture and murder of human beings because they do not fit within the racial stereotype dictated by a lunatic and his cronies.

Approximately 1.1 million people died in this place. Romanies, Jehovah`s Witnesses, homosexuals, political prisoners of all races and, of course, in the greatest numbers, the Jews of Europe.

You will see a reconstruction of a barracks that was designed to hold 54 German army Horses. The German Authorities considered this a large enough area for, originally, 600 persons and later over a thousand.

You will walk alongside the railway track to the platform where thousands of people were unloaded by force of whip and fists to be paraded in front of qualified doctors who would decide who was fit enough to work or who should go direct to the gas chamber and crematorium.

From there you can walk to the destroyed remains of the gas chamber/crematorium complexes and walk behind them to the ash pits where the final remains were placed before being carted away for fertilising the surrounding fields.

All this time you will be walking on, wonderfully lush, black flood plain soil. This soil is flecked with what look like limestone deposits, it is not limestone. It is the small pieces of bone which went up the chimney unburnt. 65+ years on it is still there.

As we left the complex we passed the gallows again. I am afraid that, by this point, all my dispassion had gone away and, if I had seen the man standing on a stool with a rope about his neck, I would have kicked the stool away without a second thought.

I do hope I have not put you off visiting. Please go!!

Standard advice to anyone doing this trip.

Do three things.
Firstly. When you finish the day at Auschwitz go for a good meal, preferably in the Market Square in Krakow, and raise a glass of whatever you drink to the fact that the good guys won.

Secondly, When at KL Auschwitz take as many pictures as possible wherever you can. (there are signs in some places asking you not to take pictures out of respect) Use these and your own memories to tell as many people as possible about your visit to a place deserving of the name „Hell on Earth“

Lastly. (I put this in because my wife warns me to not do it as soon as she hears someone even vaguely allude to the possibility)
If you meet a Holocaust Denier, resist the urge to beat the living bejesus out of them. That war was fought to give them the right to their opinion no matter how wrong.
Arguing the facts and calling them an ******* is perfectly acceptable.

Ray

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No one will force you to stay. You can leave when ever you want. Some people use that as their vacation destination and will spend a whole week there. It will be what you make of it.

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On the subject of backstage passes…..

One thing backstage passes are NOT SOLD at the box office or thru any
online ticket place like Ticketmaster. Or sold on any website for that matter.
You either have to be working with the band or the concert or know someone personally that is connected directly to the band, promoters or the concert….
Or personally know a member of the band..

There are FOUR WAYS to get a backstage pass. From somebody that posted this information here on Yahoo Answers in the past. That is really knowledgeable
on this subject & some editing of my NYC experience on this.

1)
You must KNOW someone connected with the band or tour, more like a relative that works for the band/concert/promoters. Or, if you are lucky have a friend or a neighbor that has a relative that works for the band or the promoters directly. Or somebody you personally knows that
works for the band or promoters directly that has these connections.

2)
Be a news reporter. You would have to be one connected to your local newspaper or local TV/radio news team. Also, people that are internet news bloggers very rarely get these unless they are very well know in the news industry. I have seen a few teens that get a website
and claim they are a news blogger (Sorry, that just don’t cut it).
Also, the news people can’t just show up with their news crew and be let
in backstage. They have to arrange this in advance. Especially these days.

3)
A local radio station will sometime have a backstage pass or two of the concert
and offer it as a promotional prize.
Either you have to be the 7th or 10th or 12th caller.
Or hope that the entry form you filled out gets picked out by the radio DJ or whoever they
have in a random drawing at the radio station.

4)
Sometimes a person will have one and will sell it on EBAY online auction or Craigslist
and EXPECT to pay REALLY BIG DOLLARS (like hundreds or thousands) for one.
You have to be careful when buying these from these websites. Some people I have seen
that show up at a concert and pay $300.00 and more on one only to learn that
the backstage pass they bought is nothing but a laminated fake that someone made on
his home computer that security can easily spot.

Some of these backstage passes have bar codes or security strips on
them, depending on the agents and promoters.
On some concerts the promoters will give a backstage pass to a person. Sometime these backstage passes are not transferable. If the person is not the name on the ID code
on this backstage pass they could be in some trouble.

Those are the ONLY WAY you will get a backstage pass legally.

Thank the Lord for the copy & paste option on IExplorer so I don’t have to type the
above information again when people ask this question.

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On the subject of backstage passes.

One thing backstage passes are NOT SOLD at the box office or thru any
online place like Ticketmaster. Or sold on any website for that matter.
You either have to be working with the band or the concert or know someone personally that is connected directly to the band or concert…or know a member of the band itself.

There are FOUR WAYS to get a backstage pass. From somebody that posted this information here on Yahoo Answers in the past. That is really knowledgeable
on this subject & some editing of my NYC experience on this.

1)
You must KNOW someone connected with the band or tour, more like a relative that works for the band/concert/promoters. Or, if you are lucky have a friend or a neighbor that has a relative that works for the band or the promoters directly. Or somebody you personally knows that
works for the band or promoters directly that has these connections.

2)
Be a news reporter. You would have to be one connected to your local newspaper or local TV/radio news team. Also, people that are internet news bloggers very rarely get these unless they are very well know in the news industry. I have seen a few teens that get a website
and claim they are a news blogger (Sorry, that just don’t cut it).
Also, the news people can’t just show up with their news crew and be let in backstage. They have to arrange this in advance. Especially these days.

3)
A local radio station will sometime have a backstage pass or two of the concert and offer it as a promotional prize.
Either you have to be the 7th or 10th or 12th caller.
Or hope that the entry form you filled out gets picked out by the radio DJ or whoever they have in a random drawing at the radio station.

4)
Sometimes a person will have one and will sell it on EBAY online auction or Craigslist and EXPECT to pay REALLY BIG DOLLARS (like hundreds or thousands) for one.
You have to be careful when buying these from these websites. Some people I have seen that show up at a concert and pay $300.00 and more on one only to learn the backstage pass they bought is nothing but a laminated fake that security can easily spot.
Some of these backstage passes have bar codes or security strips on them, depending on the agents and promoters.
On some concerts the promoters will give a backstage pass to a person. Sometime these backstage passes are not transferable. If the person is not the name on the ID code on this backstage pass they could be in some trouble.

Those are the ONLY WAY you will get a backstage pass legally.

Thank the Lord for the copy & paste option on IExplorer so I don’t have to type the above information again when people ask this question.