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One of the most humbling experiences I’ve ever had. Shocking, sad beyond words but so respectfully p...resented and preserved. See More
This was a very informative tour very moving, shocking and unbelievable those poor soles must never ...be forgotten See More
This was one of the saddest and most moving experiences I’ve ever had.
The Birkenau death camp (Ausc...hwitz II) was where 1.3 million Jewish, Roma, Gypsy, homosexual, disabled, men, women, children and even new born babies were brought in on those horrific trains and systematically exterminated by the Nazis in their twisted quest to create their pure Aryan race.
The thought of the almost inconceivable numbers of people sent here from all over Europe to end their lives moved me to tears.... and the fact that the Nazis tried to destroy the evidence at the end of the war appalled me most.
In this time of relative peace it is easy to ignore the lessons that this awful atrocity is trying to teach us.
There is a worrying drift towards political extremes in many places and we just do not know where the next evil tyrannical oppressor might come from.
Visiting Auschwitz and Birkenau was a heartbreaking experience but I would say that every person should visit once in their life. See More
The Birkenau death camp (Ausc...hwitz II) was where 1.3 million Jewish, Roma, Gypsy, homosexual, disabled, men, women, children and even new born babies were brought in on those horrific trains and systematically exterminated by the Nazis in their twisted quest to create their pure Aryan race.
The thought of the almost inconceivable numbers of people sent here from all over Europe to end their lives moved me to tears.... and the fact that the Nazis tried to destroy the evidence at the end of the war appalled me most.
In this time of relative peace it is easy to ignore the lessons that this awful atrocity is trying to teach us.
There is a worrying drift towards political extremes in many places and we just do not know where the next evil tyrannical oppressor might come from.
Visiting Auschwitz and Birkenau was a heartbreaking experience but I would say that every person should visit once in their life. See More
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4 lessons of Eva Moses Kor
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Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The road between sectors BIIc and BIId of the camp. It connected the selection platform with gas chambers and crematoria IV and V.
The historical photos presented there show Hungarian Jews standing on this road on their way to their death.
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On May 20, 1940 the SS transferred 30 German criminal prisoners from the Sachsenhausen camp to the future Auschwitz camp. They received numbers 1-30 but their task was quite unique. They were to become the first functionaries of the camp: block masters and capos. They were responsible for making sure that the terror ordered by the SS was fully implemented in the camp. Those 30 prisoners (with a few exceptions) were responsible for death of hundreds and hundreds of prisoners.
The date which is considered to be the start of the operation of the Auschwitz camp is June 14, 1940 when Germans brought there a transport of political prisoners, Poles. They arrived from prison in Tarnów.
See an online lesson about the history of Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/
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