Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzdtPcNwRtM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUxSxQlwR6s&feature=related
Did they misspell it?
I visited Auschwitz on a trip to Krakow. I visited Auschwitz I (the administrative HQ) and Auschwitz II Birkenau (the entrance is often used in films like Schindler’s List).
Like Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz-Birkenau is most destroyed with mostly the foundation left. It was Auschwitz I, the old Polish Cavalry base, that is horrific.
I almost passed out in the building where they took the children’s clothes, shoes, hair, etc and put them in piles.
I worry about the Left taking over and this type of thing happening. They have the will, just not the support, ... yet.
I was at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on Tuesday. I’m still processing it. Terrible place, like looking into the pits of hell.
Plus I’m jet-lagged.
I had never before believed in haunted places, but Dachau was just evil.
I had the chance to visit Hiroshima when I was 17 ... read about it before going ... saw the A-Bomb building, the temple at ground zero. Spooky.
Thanks for sharing
Never Again has been forgotten and is ringing hollow. Too many have already forgotten 9/11 and the Holocaust. How can anyone forgot such evil? I can close my eyes and still see the Towers burning and people jumping to their deaths. These camps of horror and evil were left to remind the world yet the world has forgotten.
Evil is on the march again, IMO.
It’s too bad that people can’t also visit the many sites where Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, and other communists murdered millions of people outright, or worked them to death. Neo-Stalinist and career KGB assassin Vladimir Putin wouldn’t allow that kind of tourism.
You may have been at Bergen-Belsen, but I’d bet money you weren’t a Berger-Belsen. FWIW
Bergen-Belsen is where Anne Frank died. That young girl had intelligence and grit, and I’m sorry we in the rest of the world never got to know her better.
Most people call it "Bergen-Belsen"
That's what the signs around there say.
Elie Wiesel’s “Night” is short but one of the most horrific books about the camps IMHO.
My father was involved with the liberation of Belsen. The actual number of those admitted into the camp as part of the relief effort was severely limited due to all sorts of strange bugs, several soldiers caught mystery diseases and were very sick or died.
...as they should be.
My husband has been to Dachau.....unspeakable.
But have you ever considered how these horrors compare to our own American Holocaust?.
...WE...our United States ..
..have systematically mutilated and killed over 50 million babies..
...we've burned them.... torn them from limb to limb..... and discarded them in furnaces and garbage pits.
WE have as much blood guilt as Germany....and the rest.
Berger Belsen?
Finally a new novel by that “Little Big Man” guy?
Geddy Lee of the band Rush...his parents were in that camp. Rush did a song called Red Sector A in tribute to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txQ-J0x4SZY
I think I know how you feel, I had the same experience at the Ann Frank House in Amsterdam. Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut and all the other cynics didn’t have the last word. There really is evil in the world and America really is a force for good.
I remember as a small boy growing up in Queens the couple who ran the local deli had numbers tattoed on their arms. I asked my mother why and when she very matter factly explained I was overcome with horror and revulsion. That may have been the incident that has made me a life long reflexive anti-antisemite.