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In the 60s, some of the barracks (by which I mean small wooden temporary buildings) of concentration camp in Majdanek were deconstructed. Some were used to repair the ones remaining. Some were used for another purpouse.
They were rebuilt in Belzyce village and used as social apartaments. They stand till today, inhabited. Of course, the conditions of them are kind of miserable. No water, no canalisation, probably no gas as well. They are falling apart and have many more inhabitants than just humans.
The village promesses to its inhabitants it will build new barracks for them - next year.
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btw, they say in Poland that what is ment as temporary is bound to stay the longest.
In the fifties temporary wooden barracks were built for soviet workers constructing The Palace of Culture and Science, Stalin's gift for reconstructed Warsaw. The barracks are standing till today, used as students' academics. I was supposed to live in a place like this, but decided to decline this tempting proposition
Of course, much worse things happen in Poland. And much more surreal. I remember that in some quater of Warsaw I think, people were also living in falling apart wooden barracks (I've seen the photos and it was scary), never repaired, without water and stuff, which would be bad itself, but the city made the inhabitants pay the rent for "apartaments of high standart"
In the 60s, some of the barracks (by which I mean small wooden temporary buildings) of concentration camp in Majdanek were deconstructed. Some were used to repair the ones remaining. Some were used for another purpouse.
They were rebuilt in Belzyce village and used as social apartaments. They stand till today, inhabited. Of course, the conditions of them are kind of miserable. No water, no canalisation, probably no gas as well. They are falling apart and have many more inhabitants than just humans.
The village promesses to its inhabitants it will build new barracks for them - next year.
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btw, they say in Poland that what is ment as temporary is bound to stay the longest.
In the fifties temporary wooden barracks were built for soviet workers constructing The Palace of Culture and Science, Stalin's gift for reconstructed Warsaw. The barracks are standing till today, used as students' academics. I was supposed to live in a place like this, but decided to decline this tempting proposition
Of course, much worse things happen in Poland. And much more surreal. I remember that in some quater of Warsaw I think, people were also living in falling apart wooden barracks (I've seen the photos and it was scary), never repaired, without water and stuff, which would be bad itself, but the city made the inhabitants pay the rent for "apartaments of high standart"
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