Railway at Birkenau - where selection occurred

Auschwitz-Birkenau

January 10th 2011
Today was a day I was both looking forward to and dreading at the same time. I've been studying and teaching about the Shoah (The Holocaust) for over 10 years now. I've been to Israel, been to the International Holocaust Museum at Yad Vashem, heard hundreds of survivor testimonies in person, but this is the epitome of it all. A concentration camp. Not any concentration camp, the biggest and mos ... read more

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11th January 2011

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Too well planned and organised. These perpetrators of evil knew exactly what they were doing and had all intent of wiping them out.... I cannot believe this even, though I am looking at it! I didn't realise the extent of the place and the thoroughness with which they had planned and purpose- built all the rail and buildings!!!!

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