No amount of words can express the feeling at auschwitz, the shear scale of the horror that happened there is incomprehensible. Although you see and know what went on there, when you walk around it is impossible to relate these facts to reality. I was in two minds as to whether i wanted to go to auschwitz but in the end im glad i did, because yesterday when i left auschwitz i think i was different mentaly to when i arrived. It made me angry, how can anyone hate that much? how can anyone blindly follow orders? When you learn about the holocaust in school it is detached, just a page, but when you are immersed in the environment, it becomes more than history. I think out of respect we should never forget what happened
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