Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Auschwitz 70th anniversary






Auschwitz 70th anniversary

Today is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
I would not be born for another 7 months. But that didn’t mean that I had never heard of it. I didn’t learn of the death camps until I got older and everybody started to get TV’s in their homes. 

 I couldn’t believe the pictures I had seen while growing up. I’m not Jewish and none of my family had been sent to the death camps, it’s just that it boggled my mind that people could do such things to other people.

  I never told anybody but I always wondered what it would be like to see Auschwitz. I was curious. Then the other day I came across the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum on my computer. They have a virtual tour. If you want to take a walk through the camp and get an idea of what it looks like without actually traveling there, then this is the place on your computer to go too. There is a mass of information and things that I never knew about. 

 After taking the virtual tour on my computer, I had nightmares for two nights in row. I thought about what all those people must have gone through. 

 Here is the link to the virtual tour;
 




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