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Welcome back to my blog covering Bann Maine West's Holocaust Study Visit to Krakow Poland. Kindly funded by Triangle Housing. In today's blog I will be covering our post visit workshop that again was hosted by the wonderful Dr Katy Radford MBE and Jerry from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT). It was amazing getting to see everyone again on the Monday night after we came home and it was great getting to see Katy. Safe to say their was a completely different vibe in the r

Welcome back to my blog covering Bann Maine West's Holocaust Study Visit to Krakow Poland. Kindly funded by Triangle Housing. In today's blog I will be covering our fifth and final day in Poland, were we had some free time and got to explore more of the incredible city before flying home! 8.30AM: I was down in the Lobby brave and sharp on the final day as some of us had planned on going into the centre of the city early to try and do a bit more sight seeing. I had made sure t

Welcome back to my blog covering Bann Maine West's Holocaust Study Visit to Krakow Poland. Kindly funded by Triangle Housing. In today's blog I will be covering our forth day in Poland, were we had an amazing tour of the Jewish Quarter with the same tour guide from Day 1, Joanna! 8.00AM: It was an 8 start for breakfast again and as always the food was lovely and little did we know we would need every bit of fuel we could get our hands on for what is to come! So at 9.30 sharp

Welcome back to my blog covering Bann Maine West's Holocaust Study Visit to Krakow Poland. Kindly funded by Triangle Housing. In today's blog I will be covering our third day in Poland, were we had some free time in the morning followed by our visit to Wieliczka Salt Mine. 8.30AM: It was a later start on the 3rd day however I was down sharp as a few of us had planned on heading into the city centre to do a bit more sightseeing. 9.30AM: After breakfast me and a few of the lads

Welcome back to my blog covering Bann Maine West's Holocaust Study Visit to Krakow Poland. Kindly funded by Triangle Housing. In today's blog I will be covering our second day in Poland, which was probably the most challenging, the tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau. 6.30AM: Again, it was an early start on the Saturday morning as we were heading off to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The hotel breakfast was lovely, it was a full continual buffet. A lot of ones within the the group had about 3 co

Welcome back to my blog covering Bann Maine West's Holocaust Study Visit to Krakow Poland. Kindly funded by Triangle Housing. In today's blog I will be covering our first day in Poland, from an early start in Cullybackey to a late evening in Poland! 5.30AM: It was an early start on the first day, I got up at 4.30 to get ready and have a quick double check that I have got everything I will need. Then I headed to the Maine Spar in Cullybackey. To get the bus to Belfast Internat

Welcome back to my blog! Today I will be covering the Pre-Visit Workshop. Again, as always, I would like to thank Triangle Housing for the funding of this trip through there Housing for All, Good Relations budget and to Bann Maine West for facilitating the trip and for letting me document it through the blog. On Thursday night we all gathered in the Maine Business Centre for our pre-visit workshop presented by the wonderful Dr Katy Radford MBE. We started off with some get to

Hello and welcome to my blog covering Bann Maine West Community Cluster's Holocaust Study Visit. I'm Lenny I was fortunate enough to get to volunteer with Bann Maine West in The Hub Gift Shop over the summer so if you popped down in you have probably seen me about! I am very excited to be going on this trip. Thank you to Triangle Housing for funding the trip and to Bann Maine West for facilitating it. Additionally, I am very grateful for the opportunity to document the visit