Re: Liberation of Auschwitz
Same sentiments from me. Thank God, we will never see such a horror ever being allowed to happen again in our lifetime. It defies belief that one madman could give such an order and others meekly followed it.Re: Liberation of Auschwitz
Re: Liberation of Auschwitz
My late husband visited Auschwitz when serving in Germany in the 60's and found it a place with a terrible atmosphere, complete silence no birds no insects.Re: Liberation of Auschwitz
My son went last year it changed his life . He tells me I should go I tell him I just couldn't I feel it would break me if I saw it with my own eyes the horrors of man's inhumanity to man women and innocent babies and children . Unbelievable that a father mother grandparent could actually do these things . I just cant think about it . Pure evilRe: Liberation of Auschwitz
Re: Liberation of Auschwitz
I have not been to the concentration camps but I have worked with very elderly holocaust survivors with dementia. They were only young or children when they went through it. Some of them were the only survivors from their family of origin. I only had to see the horror in their faces when they experienced flashbacks or triggers to the memories they had buried all their lives in order to survive. That was heart breaking enough. I managed to keep it together but the thing that made me just break down and cry was when we visited the Jewish Museum in Sydney. There is a whole floor dedicated to the holocaust. THere is one sculpture that is simply a clay representation of a big pile of little shoes. The shoes of children piled up after they were ordered to remove them before entering the gas chambers. An image that will haunt me for the rest of my days. I think I'm as brave as the next guy but I don't think I could cope with Auschwitz.Re: Liberation of Auschwitz
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