Today was a day that is hard to put words to. It is several hours after I have returned from my visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau and I still don't have many words, just pictures in my head, impressions and sadness. Although the weather was miserable, cold and rainy, it was fitting. Poland is relatively flat and the wind whips through the open spaces as I learned today. It was only slightly windy, but I couldn't help but think about the many who were here when it was much colder and snowing and desperate. I wasn't going to write today but I need to get my first impressions written before they fade. I can't describe what I felt when I was able to actually have my feet on the ground at the camp(s). It certainly wasn't excitement or
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