Auschwitz

I visited Auschwitz last Saturday. It was a very emotional experience and something that I will never ever forget. The hardest part was seeing photographs with faces of children being lead to gas chambers. The rooms full of human hair, eye glasses, and shoes were brutally shocking. I saw a corridor with hundreds of pictures of young poles who died in the camp and it was too much to bear. Most of the victims lasted just a few days or months. There were too many horrors to count and describe here. It was incredibly depressing yet it was important that I visited. You can read a countless number of books and literature about the holocaust but you cannot not fully comprehend it until you visit the camps.

I left thinking that Auschwitz will always remind people of the horrific crimes that people can commit against others and that will perhaps prevent us from doing such things again. Then I thought that something similar already happened in Bosnia in 1995. Who’s to say that it won’t happen again.