Auschwitz

I was there only a couple of months back, as everyone else has said it's pretty harrowing, really puts things into perspective.

There is a room full of hair which was removed from the victims after coming out the chambers, there was so much of it. You can see full pony tails with hair bands still in - cut from the top. I remember thinking each piece was once part of a human being, each piece told a story. Pretty powerful.
 
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Going to Krakow on the 30th, one of the reasons for going is to visit Auschwitz as when we were in Germany my dad wouldn't take me to any camps as he didn't think I was old enough.

Did go camping by the Mohne dam though and visit several WWII museums and displays, in fact when he was stationed in Bruggen we frequently went into Holland shopping and under the bridges there were plaques next to bullet holes.
 
I've studied the Holocaust in detail, both during A levels, undergrad, and more recently in my masters degree. Only a few months ago I remember sitting in the library with some books on various camps, with pictures of some victims. I'm a 25 year old male, not particularly emotional, but I can tell you I had tears in my eyes reading some of those books. I can't even begin to imagine what visiting some of the actual camps would be like, but one day I will visit, and pay my respects in whatever way I can.
 
For those that say why anyone would want to visit the place I was the same until I went!

For me, it was to keep the memory of those that died, alive. To pray for their souls etc.

If you get the chance, go. If only so that they will never ever be forgotten. For me, it wasn't like a tourist attraction. It was much deeper than that.
 
I went in March 2011


Crematorium

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Gas chamber

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rare said:
Like I say, that's my position on it. I don't like how its become something of a tourist attraction, though I understand why, and certainly can understand why people feel they have a need to visit.

But as I said, I believe what happened there was so extraordinarily beyond comprehension, that any attempt to come to a conclusion about it, including being at the site itself, will never really suffice.
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I visited at Dachu. I had no sense of it being a tourist attraction, or theme park. I find that an odd perspective.

It was like visiting the cemetery or a funeral as a sign of respect. A very quiet place. It was a difficult place to visit for many.
 
stopper said:
I can't remember where I read it now, might have been infowars or somewhere, but when you come across a story like that, true or not, it really does make you think twice about what we are being told.
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It kept coming up on my Facebook feed from Britain First where they get 99% of their information wrong.
 
I visited in my mid teens. A truly harrowing place and certainly a very emotional and humbling experience.

I later visited Natzweiler-Struthof in France. The exhibits were a lot more upfront about the atrocities and made me physically sick.
 
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And after visiting that place do you still believe in God?
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That made me remember this article off yesterday. The article headline for it is quite fitting for Dawkins. I'm no believer in any form of god, never mind going out of my way to persecute those who are, like the events at Auschwitz.

I'm with rare though as it's somewhere I never want to visit, but I always want it to remain. It helps remind us of evil and it's something that we should learn from and never allow to be repeated.
 
When you visit the place you realise how real it all was. How gruesome it was. I believe what has been written about the place. Many first hand accounts exist, etc etc.

It is not a 'tourist attraction'. Ask anyone who goes there. We all, on our trip there, could never imagine it anything other than as a place of sorrow, a place to remember the dead, a sad pitiful place that we have to keep going to, to keep the memory of those that died alive in our modern world.

After visiting the place, not a day goes by that i dont think of them.

I want to go there again though. To spend a lot longer there than what i did. It was a truly harrowing experience visiting the place but not as harrowing for those that suffered there during the war!!
 
I'd visit if I get the chance in fact I think it should also be on school trips to remind kids how lucky they are and show where prejudice could lead

My grandad is one of those that stumbled on a death camp but never talked about the horrors he saw
 
Not been, but certainly want to go, I'd take my children too. It's just something that shouldn't be forgotten, despite it being so upsetting (but really especially because it is so upsetting).
 
I went to the Berlin Science Museum and they had a carriage that took Jews to an extermination camp which you could go inside. I couldn't stay in there long, it freaked me out a fair bit. I'm not sure if I'd like to go to Auschwitz, I think it might be a bit overwhelming tbh.
 
I think more schools should take children and show them how cruel people can be to others. Kids these days are able to dissassociate themselves from other humans very easily through the internet and various other forms. Maybe if they saw first hand how people have been treated it will make them realise that when they are laughing at someones miss fortune on the internet, it isnt funny as its real life and it is a real person that is being hurt.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
I went to the Berlin Science Museum and they had a carriage that took Jews to an extermination camp which you could go inside. I couldn't stay in there long, it freaked me out a fair bit. I'm not sure if I'd like to go to Auschwitz, I think it might be a bit overwhelming tbh.
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The documentary I linked too earlier, Shoah, interviews one of the train drivers.
 
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