Its Gdansk, not Danzig

well I am in the city where world war 2 started when a german battleship bombarded the fortress at westerplatte just north of Danzig/Gdansk. The city is really cool, alot like what I would think Stockholm or Copenhagen would look like, prolly because its a baltic kind of architecture. Went out with a bunch of scottish guys, big mistake, it was fun but lets just say I got back to my hostel but didnt quite make it in. I kinda passed out in the bushes for a few minutes before polish cops were like readin me the riot act, it was all good cuz i was actually at the hostel, just outside in the bushes...I went inside fell asleep and that was that. Im pissed at myself, after all the trouble i went through to get a contact lense case I forgot it in krakow. Well a few days ago I went to temple for the first time in my life, I even wore a yamika (sp?) and everything. It was the main temple synagogue in krakow and im glad i was with the foosball team because i got to krakow right in the middle of the jewish festival, and it was awesome. I saw this amazing jewish rapper from montreal called dj so-called. So fun, especially since it was at the synagogue which has been all fixed up to its former glory. After that I went to Auschwitz the next day. So sad, so many people died, although I felt like the polish government accentuated the deaths of ethnic poles....maybe its just me. They at least had a chance, 90% of the jews sent to aushwitz birkenau got off the train and were immediately gassed and cremated. 1.5 million people died there. Each of the nations that had jews (primarily, although roma and others too) sent to auschwitz were represented by their own exhibits in blockhouses...the hungarian (the country with the most jews that died there) exhibit was the most moving, with italys being the worst(borderline stupid). In many of them I was the only person in there because tour groups skipped them, so that made it more moving. By far the most disturbing thing was the pile of hair, about a tons worth, that the nazis had cut from the women. They used it like wool for textile factories to create cloth, the germans had invoices and everything for it. The shoes left over from the people were also moving as I searched for pairs of the same shoes, some of which were children shoes. Its hard to believe this could have happened only 60 years ago...and that people (regular ss soldiers) could do it without asking themselves wtf. Brainwashed zealots. Mengele was also working here, doing disgusting experiments..Ok I dont even want to go further in detail, its a place that must be exerienced, even if its somewhat touristic, maybe go early or late in the day or off season to avoid the clamoring tourists. Maybe tomorrow to Berlin or Poznan.