Looking out the hotel window, you can see the snow blowing sideways!
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Memorial to the christians who died in the Holocaust. In America much is made of the 6 million Jews who died in Nazi Europe 1933-1945. Rightly so. Another 6 million dead from the same regiem are largely unheralded, including 3 million Polish Catholics, who died in the same camps. Hollywood is not run by Polish Catholics, so no movies are made of this (except Enigma, a British film about code breaking) so the atrocity is unknown in the U.S. This memorial has crosses representing the many thousands taken from Warsaw in rail cars.
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Jose & I brave the blizzard
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Agi joins Jose and Zandra in front of the memorial.
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The Chinese Embassy. I didn't get shot at.
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Cute sculptures in front of this government building.
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The palace of justice.
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Eagles on black stone.
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Church
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Church
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Memorial to the uprising.
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Memorial to the underground uprising of the Polish against the Nazis.
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Closeup of the memorial
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I join the resistance!
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Zandra jumps at the chance to join the resistance.
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Street Scene
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Tower in the city walls.
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City walls
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Downtown streets are empty, snowy
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Christmas market by daylight.
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Agi & I by the mermaid, symbol of Warsaw
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The river
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Looking toward where Agi was born
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The streets
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Part of the city walls were removed, but much remains. Most cities in Europe were fortified, but eventually the walls were removed after the invention of gunpowder, city expansion, and two world wars.
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Town hall
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Memorial plaque to polish killed by the Nazis in 1944
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Statue of former king. It combines secular (royal) and religious imagery. It has had 3 columns under it over the hundreds of years its been there.
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Closeup
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Even blizzard conditions don't stop fashion!
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