People should visit Auschwitz - it is still eerie, but to me the saddest monument is in the Jewish monument in Warsaw
This was renovated thanks to a Jewish man who survived the war and he has written an epitaph that is near the entrance:
“There are German youth groups that come to Israel, and at one of the lectures a 17- or 18-year-old young man asked me, ‘Are you willing to forgive my grandfather?’ I said: ‘I have great honour for you and for your parents, for the new Germany, but your grandfather and all of his generation I will never forgive, and I don’t have the power of forgiveness in the name of the six million people that were murdered.”
Or to me, the one statue in Warsaw - and we are a happy city but one with long memories of sorrow of millions of Polish Jews and Gentiles murdered by the Nazis - the one status that always brings me to tears is this one
Janusz Korczak - he loved children and ran an orphanage -- but he was tossed into Auschwitz. he was not slated to be murdered by the Germans (he was too well known) but he volunteered to go into the gas chamber with his wards so they would not be scared when death came to them
Now that is brave