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[quote=Anonymous]My DD will be joining me in Poland this summer where I am working.  I've got her a summer job with a client and hope this will give her some exposure and help her break out of her U.S. high school world.  I want her to get a taste of living abroad and to at least experience somewhat life in Poland.  We will hit Krawkow, Poznan and Czestochowa, which are all cities associated with our family roots and where we have relatives or monuments related to their life before coming to America.

I've thought long and hard whether this trip will include a trip to Auschwitz.  I want her to have a positive experience in Poland and not come to think of it as a "land of ashes."  I've met a few Americans who've only come here to go to Auschwitz.  It is unfortunate because the country has so much to offer, of which this sad history is but a part.  I just came back form a weekend in Krakow and spent the entire day in the old Jewish Quarter.  I found it very emotional - much more than visiting Auschwitz - as it was a place of life and not death.

I am also thinking about a trip elsewhere in Europe outside of Poland, and am trying to decide between Vienna or Paris.  Vienna is an overnight train from Warsaw, Paris a two hour flight ($75 RT).  I love Vienna, but that is because I am somewhat an afficionado of this history of Habsburg Central Europe as well as the history of classical music that is so represented there.    What would you choose if you had the opportunity as a teen to go to Vienna or to Paris? [/quote]

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