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Monday, May 21, 2012. Pwutsk in Polish, Plotsk in Yiddish. It was always my intention to visit the town in Poland where my grandmother Mollie and her sister, my great aunt Sadie, were born. Last year I simply drove through the outskirts of Plotsk, but this year I made it happen. I made reservations at Starzynskie Hotel and Spa, and imagine my surprise when I arrived and it was lovely and luxurious inside! Turns out that not far away.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Last day in Eastern Europe Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Lenin shrunk down to size. Once inside we learned about the cultural oppression, arrests, deportations, imprisonment, forced labor, and executions during the Soviet occupation. Going through the well-documented museum- including the prison and torture cells in the basement- was painful and distressing, and we were all emotionally drained by it. The only way Frank Zappa ever.

Trip participants and authors of this blog. Great photos from the trip. Tuesday, June 7, 2016. Our second day in Vienna, and our last day of the trip, was sunny in its weather and in its content. It may have been the only day of the trip that we did not visit a memorial site or museum commemorating a mass murder! It started with a tour of an honest-to-goodness palace.