Lithuania

I can now add a 60th country - Lithuania (my fourth new country this year) - to my list of countries where I have slept at least one montionless night:

1. UK
2. Malta
3. Canada
4. U.S.A.
5. Austria
6. Saint Lucia
7. Tunisia
8. France
9. The Netherlands
10. Cuba
11. Egypt
12. Eritrea
13. Czech Republic
14. Hungary
15. Ukraine
16. Portugal
17. Saudi Arabia
18. Germany
19. Guinea
20. Sierra Leone
21. Bosnia and Herzegovina
22. Switzerland
23. Ethiopia
24. Somaliland (Somalia)
25. Djibouti
26. Azerbaijan
27. Kenya
28. United Arab Emirates
29. Afghanistan
30. Pakistan
31. Australia
32. Brazil
33. Thailand
34. Malaysia
35. Cambodia
36. Ireland
37. India
38. Nepal
39. Liberia
40. Ireland
41. Belgium
42. Cyprus
43. Turkey
44. Sri Lanka
45. Bulgaria
46. Romania
47. China
48. Italy
49. Norway
50. Dominican Republic
51. Haiti
52. Russia
53. South Korea
54. Myanmar
55. Mexico 
56. Central African Republic
57. Cameroon
58. Iceland
59. Poland
60. Lithuania

Countries I have technically visited but which do not qualify with one motionless night:

1. Croatia (airport transfer in Zagreb)
2. Japan (airport transfer in Tokyo)
3. Monaco (for lunch)
4. Martinique (day trip from St. Lucia)
5. South Africa (airport transfer in Johannesburg)
6. Slovakia (crossed twice at night by train)
7. Spain (crossed twice at night by train)
8. Sudan (airport transfer in Khartoum)
9. Holy See (museum and St. Peter's square visit)
10. Panama (airport transfer in Panama City)

Auschwitz

Today I toured the German concentration camps at Auschwizt (real name Oświęcim) in Poland.

Current scholarly estimates of the inmates include 1.3 million people, around 90 percent of them Jews, as well as 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Roma and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, some 400 Jehovah's Witnesses and tens of thousands of people of diverse nationalities.  Those not killed in the gas chambers generally died of starvation, forced labor, infectious disease, individual executions, and medical experiments.

About 20,000 (of 60,000) inmates survived a forced march away from the oncoming Soviets in January 1945.  About 7,500 remaining inmates were liberated by the Soviets in the camp.

Please see the Wikpedia article 'Auschwitz concentration camp'.

Auschwitz I (Stammlager or base camp)

Arbeit macht frei ("work makes free")

Zyklon B

Among the artifacts of automated murder found by the Russians were 348,820 men's suits and 836,255 women's garments.

Thousands were executed against this (reconstructed) wall for crimes such as stealing bread.

At least 60,000 people were gassed to death here.

They were efficiently cremated here.

 Auschwitz II–Birkenau (Vernichtungslager or extermination camp)

'Gate of death'

Wagons such as these transported 80 people without food or water for days.

Hungarian Jews on the Judenrampe (Jewish ramp) after disembarking from the transport trains, to be sent rechts! – to the right – meant labor; links! – to the left – the gas chambers. Photo from the Auschwitz Album (May 1944)  [Museum photo caption from Wikipedia]

Crematorium II where more than 20,000 people could be gassed and cremated each day.  Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly jews but also The gas chambers of Birkenau were blown up by the SS in January 1945 in an attempt to hide the German crimes from the advancing Soviet troops. 

If someone did manage to escape, the SS would pick 10 people at random from the prisoner's block and starve them to death.

Each of the three levels of each bunk unit slept seven people.