Has anyone here been to auschwitz?

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Everyday's the same again...

Yes I went in 2006. We had a six hour drive home though, so I don't feel that I was there long enough - and I want to go back.

My partner (Polish), his mom and his brother came with me. She and I both cried - not blatant weeping, but discreet tears - yes - you won't be alone.

It is a strange place, but one worth experiencing, I feel.

Edit: the msgr below is right - you do tend to link to something that you know, like my nan always carries a basket with her - and there's a room full of baskets, the cases, shoes etc didn't affect me - but the baskets - wooh!

serduszko011

I've been to Auschwitz twice. Once alone, second time with Italian youth from the school exchange I was participating in. Both visits were very moving for me, especially when I saw those tons of shoes, hair and suitcases of prisoners, their photos... Yes, it made me cry. I'm Polish, so this camp moved me because there was a part of the history in my country.
Second time, when I observed behaviour of Italian people with me, I understood they don't feel the same as I do about Auschwitz concentration camp. They were unconcerned, and didn't feel really, maybe couldn't realise what exactly happened in Auschwitz. After talking with my host I understood it didn't mean anything for her.
So, it depends on how much you know history of this camp and how much you want to know it.
I hope I helped.
Greetings...

jock_mcfishwick

no but when I was in the forces I visited Belson ...It was very eerie and quiet ,no bird sound ,and the information centre makes you glad it never happened to yourself and your family

B. O. B.

Yes, there were a couple of school kids there who were trying to look cool , which I thought was pathetic!

I got quite upset because I was fond of a girl at the time who had long hair. The inmates had to have their heads shaved.

Most people cannot imagine what it is like to face imminent death.

I was quite surprised at the amount of Nazi vandalism there is around Poland, given what happened in the second world war! Then again it might have changed in the past 11 years.

Kat B

I went last year....of course it is very sad and i did cry but it was worth it....I am polish living in the US and for my history class i did a project on auschwitz...after reading about it and writing a report on it, i got to see the real thing that could not be expressed in mere words...as you walk and see all the barracks you realize "wow, millions of people died here" as i saw the shooting wall, where they shot people including children, i started tearing up...when you go into the museam section and see all the hair and the shoes and the eyeglasses and the suitcases that people had to throw away, it made me cry even more...it was an experiance that i think everyone should go through in order to realize how precious life really is....i see life in a new way now and try to live the best life i can, day by day, cause tomorrow can be something unexpected....

ciaom

It's worth going just to pay your respect to all those that died there, but be ready with tissues. It's going to have a profound impact on you.

baby_face_paris

I haven't been and don't think I would like to. Too sad.

SCOTT N KYLIE

Yes. Very morbid.

Jean D

Never been. I can imagine it is an experience one would not forget,even only as a visitor.

Anthony

My dad went and he said that it didn't affect him that much, though he thought it would do.

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my nan's been and she said it was very sad there..

Robert D

Went to school in Bergen Belsen in the early sixties. The school was previously a Waffen SS hospital, and the concentration camp was a short distance away. The survivors were cared for in the hospital after they were liberated.

I only learnt this later, though I did visit the remains of Belsen without really appreciating the horror at the time.

XoX

No, it is a journey that i don't want to take as too many people have died unnecessarily in the death camp.

second only to trollalalala

Yes, I went in the 90s on a school trip. (As an aside, the trip was of no academic value, just like a lot of trips my school used partake in...coincidentally, I hear they're now in debt). It wasn't that moving or offensive. Something so static failed to evoke anything in me. Something more menial than genocide could offend me, as long as it was taking place in my presence. People cried though, although I'm not sure if the tears were sincere or they just felt that they were supposed to.

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