June 24,2013 Auschwitz

We left the Czech Republic and moved into Poland.First stop was Auschwitz.This is the site of one of humanities most unspeakable horifying tragedies,the murder of 1.1 million innocent people.From 1941 to 1945 Auschitz was biggest and most notorious concentration camp in the Nazi system.Before WW2this was a base for the Polish army.When Hitler came he took it over and turned into a Concentration camp for his Polish political enemies.Of the 1.1 million murdered here approximately 960,000 were Jews.There were 2 camps here,one Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz(Birkenau)2.In the summer you must go on a tour as so many people are visiting and it makes it mucher easier. The tour lasts about 3 and half hours.It can very emotional.As you go through the gate to the camp there is a sign that says Work will be Freedom.What lies.In the barracks there were blocks for all nationalities.The Gypsies,Czechs,Hungarians,Jews etc. All undesireables so they said.People were transported from all over Europe.You'll see everything that was taken from them such as eyeglasses,shoes,canes and other aids,suitcases and all other of anything they had. Their hair was used for textiles.All this was piled high in different areas.Just unbelievable that this could happen to someone.Sanitary conditions were extreme.Use of the toliet if you could call it that,was once in morning and once at night for only 10 seconds.These were the people that could work and afterwards if they couldn't off to the gas chamber.At Birkenau there were train tracks that led into the camp.This lead to the dividing platform where someone pointed left or right.Poland had Europe's largest concentration of Jews 3,500,000.The Nazis murdered 4,500,000 Jews in Poland that they brought from elsewhere in Europe.This a profoudly life altering experience and it will forever affect the way I will think of the Holocaust.Hitler was a monster and a madman and you wonder how people could follow this monster.Here's some photos.Enough of this sad time in history.