Today Is Holocaust Memorial Day

[Bobbisox1]

Has anyone been to Auschwitz?
It was one of the most harrowing experiences I've ever had seeing those bunks three deep , latrines going through the middle of a 'shed' stories of Dysentery just raining down on the one below , other dreadful tales , this must never happen again ...ever

[Bobbisox1]

It's something that stays with you forever Mamya, I believe it's Norway that has it in their school curriculum thst their older student go to see it

[Bobbisox1]

Yes Zac, they were rickety wooden bunks where disease was rampant, did it leave a lasting effect on you Zac?
There was about 18 of us went ,we board the coach to go back to the hotel and no one spoke, it was that eerie

[Bobbisox1]

Oh Wow,such a powerful message there Zac, I never knew his own father was in the Nazi Part ?

[Bobbisox1]

We went to Krakow specifically to go there Tomus, not everyone's cup of tea I admit

[Bobbisox1]

Yes it did Drmorgan, the mass Genocide of innocent people

[Deskdiary]

Yes.

I've been to Krakow quite a few times - it's a great, very walkable, city; I always stay in Kazimierz, which was the old Jewish ghetto where the pogroms were, and there's a bar around the corner from the hotel I stay in where, in the courtyard, the wall is still peppered with bullet holes.

I went to Auschwitz during my first stay in Krakow, and it was the most humbling experience of my life - even just typing this is making the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end; it's that powerful.

[Bobbisox1]

Jim I totally agree
Thanks for that post DD