Auschwitz-Birkenau

You can’t exactly call it a hoot. Interesting, however. And quite thought provoking.

‘Want’ is entirely the wrong word. Rather, I feel that I ought to go to Auschwitz as a reminder and a warning to myself of the inhumanity of which mankind is capable.

I think that visiting this place will change the life of anybody. For sure worth visiting!

I went with my mother while staying with family in Poland. It was an extremely humbling and thought-provoking experience, especially walking into the crematorium. I’ve also been to the beaches and graves of Normandie and it’s incredible to think that all of this happened not so long ago. (And atrocities continue to happen!)

i went in november of last year and stayed in krakow. a friend and i got a coach to Auschwitz and i was so excited because this was a place i have wanted to go my entire life. first of all, the camp was closed bar the main bit (i.e. Birkenau)and the main buildings were just memorials of people who were persecuted. i imagine it would have meant much more to me had someone of my ancestral line been there or had anything to do with the holocaust, but they didn’t. the last couple of buildings were emotional and the wall was emotional… that was it though. there are more delightful things to see in Poland than auschwitz.

Makes you think about how horrible we can be to one another. Also makes you think about the power of the human spirit to survive. Made me re-evaluate what I thought are big problems in my life (went there right before I graduated from college). Made me appreciate my life and family. If you go, mentally prepare yourself, it’s like no other place I’ve ever been.

My life has been changed since I’ve visited Auschwitz. It is a totally humbling and shocking experience. I am so glad I’ve gotten to go and at such an early stage in my life.

should have been going here in February, until i moved college and lost my £180 deposit. :\

I have to go there.

I think that…

well this place marks whoever enters here. It’s one thing to see documentaries, movies or reading. It’s another thing to see pictures of the people enslaved there. See how they were treated and so on…

Can be shocking.