I have been to Buchenwald and Auschwitz.
I wouldn't have gone to both, but my wife was traveling with me the second time, and she had never been and wanted to see Auschwitz, so I agreed to go. But really, one of these places is enough of a reality check to last a lifetime.
The things I remember most:
The displays of collected items, piles of shoes, hair (the prisoners were shaved down on arrival), eye glasses (did the prisoners no longer need them?), and watches.
The showers, above which you can see the vent holes where they dropped the Zyklon B.
The ovens, next to the showers.
At Buchenwald, there are the chambers where special prisoners were kept to serve as laboratory experimental subjects.
There was a large tree trunk-like pole still erect in the middle of Buchenwald camp. I don't remember what it was used for, but I remember that it reminded me of the cross.
I wouldn't have gone to both, but my wife was traveling with me the second time, and she had never been and wanted to see Auschwitz, so I agreed to go. But really, one of these places is enough of a reality check to last a lifetime.
The things I remember most:
The displays of collected items, piles of shoes, hair (the prisoners were shaved down on arrival), eye glasses (did the prisoners no longer need them?), and watches.
The showers, above which you can see the vent holes where they dropped the Zyklon B.
The ovens, next to the showers.
At Buchenwald, there are the chambers where special prisoners were kept to serve as laboratory experimental subjects.
There was a large tree trunk-like pole still erect in the middle of Buchenwald camp. I don't remember what it was used for, but I remember that it reminded me of the cross.
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