Hannah and I came to Le Chambon-sur-Lignon on the Massif Centrale south west of Lyon, 4 days after being in Terezín, and 2 days after visiting Auschwitz and Birkenau. It has been balm for the soul. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007518 In the 1940, the SS commandeered a Polish garrison complex in the small town of Oświȩcem, known in German as Auschwitz, and established the first site of their most infamous extermination camp. It was soon expanded to accommodate industrial worksites and barracks for yet more worker/prisoners, covering some . Five gas chamber/crematorium complexes were eventually built on the second site, Auschwitz II / Birkenau. Over a million Jews, Romany, prisoners of war, and political opponents died through over-work, neglect, and murder at the Auschwitz complex. In
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