Auschwitz-Birkineau

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Auschwitz....... I feel I need to write a separate blog for this day.
I am still trying to process this day still, I studied and watched many a documentary on concentration camps on Auschwitz and similar camps while at school and growing up. But nothing prepared me for the first hand experience, I don't even know we're to begin. Our tour guide a thirty year old Polish boy was just brilliant, and you knew that it was just a effort in his speech to try not break down and cry or get emotional. People ranging from 15 to 98 years who were absolutely stricken to the core, with his cold hard facts, that went down in this particular camp Auschwitz.But it's when you see the rooms of shoes and suitcases. The Human hair cut plates and curls that then you have a idea of the volume of this genocide. Spectacles, teeth, artificial limbs that were taken from these peoples.You start to understand, the volume of people that go through Auschwitz visiting is around three to four thousand daily that just how many a day the Nazi's murdered, a day processed their belongings burning the evidence and their bodies.The Jewish and minority's people's that were brought to Auschwitz by train, and were split up. Family's first husband and wife not just husband and wife let's break it down,to your life partner your true love the person you love more than life it's self. Then children and baby's taken away from their mother these are your children, who you would gladly give your life for, in a seconds breath. This is how you need to understand it, how can any human being do this. It's just too hard to comprehend how the Nazi's could commit this genocide. The fact is that to this day you wouldn't think these atrocities would never happen again. The truth is that it has over and over again, perhaps not on a scale such large but it has. Cambodia, Bosnia and Africa and Syria why...........
Young People visit Auschwitz and go away educated and very affected as we did, it will remain with us both always, it left our hearts empty and so very very heartbroken.

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Comments

[Susanne Kunberger]

Great
Suzanne and Glenn, the words you did choose to describe the feelings and emotions you have while you are visiting a camp like Ausschwitz are exactly what I felt, when I visited a camp for the first time (we had to do during schooldays...); and every visit after evoked the same feelings... But unfortunately I have sometimes the impression that nothing changed in the world since - as you do.... Thank you for the blog. xxx

[Cherries]

Dearest Susanne ?
Thankyou for your response Susanne, no wonder that your such a special person, and a lovely friend. You must have been very brave as a young student, to visit such a sad place place.