On the 9th we toured both Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps ,

It was a beautiful day and quite hard to comprehend all that occurred in these places .
I had hoped to have gone to Germany too,to the staglag my Dad was in but time ran out .

[gloria jones]

Great collage of photos...This tour must bring up many emotions.

[katy]

must have been very difficult

[Dawn]

@seattlite oh yes certainly did

[Dawn]

@grammyn yes it was there were quite a few in tears , and the sad thing is all the atrocities that are still occurring.

[Monique]

In the Netherlands, we have a programme that sends young offenders of hate crimes to the former Concentration Camps in order to learn what the consequences can be ... one can only hope, it helps.

[Lynda McG]

Sad and thought provoking - I visited a museum in Israel when on the kibbutz many years ago. Quite overwhelming what went on.

[Diana]

Such a horrific chapter in history.

[Peter H]

It's a sobering visit.

[Merrelyn]

We visited Dachau several years ago. This was a part of history that I hope will never be forgotten nor repeated!

[Pat Knowles]

Oh how very moving that must have been Dawn....a very terrible time in the world.

[Dawn]

@momamo Wow surely that would be very sobering for them

[Dawn]

@lyndamcg Yes I’m sure , such a sad tough era

[Dawn]

@ludwigsdiana @peadar
Certainly was

[Dawn]

@merrelyn Agree totally

[Dawn]

@happypat yes sure was lots of areas no photos allowed .
They have one gas chamber open but found impossible to enter as did a few of us

[Kathy]

Just finished a book about Germany during WWII and have just begun another about the concentration camps. (Both Book Club books). I wonder how anyone could do these things to other people. Hope your dad survived his time in the camp. A friend of mine's father was in one, too.

[haskar]

Very sad place and unfortunately, many teach nothing

[Ann H. LeFevre]

I have been through several Holocaust museums (the one in Washington DC has its lobby set up to look like Auschwitz when you enter- very powerful!). It boggles my mind that anyone could deny this horror happened- but they do! I can't say this would be on my "bucket list" but I've always thought if I had the opportunity it would be a place I'd see although I know it would pierce my soul for what happened there.

[Dawn]

@olivetreeann I have to agree it was extremely moving myself and a young lass didn’t go into the open gas chamber both in tears at the thought of horror that went on in these camps .

[Krista Marson]

such important history