czech with friends:

this past week we took some days off to go meet up with some friends and see a little of the czech with them, i (kyle) went to bible school in spain with ravi 4 years back and travelled around europe with him afterwards. he and his wife (amanda) headed out here to meet up with us and make some new memories, and our wives had to put up with us and our "remember when we were travelling and.....""we got lost in italy"or"we slept in that train station"or"we forgot our jackets at that hostel way up in the swiss alps and had to train back for a whole day just to get them".......

we had a great time touring around Prague for 2 days, including a trip out to Terizin, while in our hostel we met a man who was doing research and putting together information on a little known former Nazi compound outside of Prague. Here during the war jewish people were taken and held while waiting deportaion to one of the many death camps. The interesting part of Terezin is that the nazis used it as a front, they shot footage here for a propaganda film and even toured the red cross through, complete with coffee houses, swimming pools, and theaters they passed it off that it was kinda like a getta way for the jewish people, but these things were only operational for the time of the films and the tours and in reality it was a place of death, torment and hopelessness. The main objective was to starve and work the people to death and it that didn't work then to ship them off to auswhitz, or one of the many other death camps. As neither of us had ever been to one of these places before it was a real eye opening experience to what really happened in those terrible years. The picture here on the left is what you find at many of these places, it is right as you walk into the main entrance "work will make you free", a lie right from the start as in those times, work killed many but freed not one.