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The Travels Of Rachel And Simon
Visited the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps today. It brought home a lot of the horrors of the holocaust and was scary how big the camps actually were. Will certainly make teaching it in school more realistic as I now have more materials and information to use.
I think the most shocking part was the material evidence and the huge piles of glasses, shoes and other items the Nazis took from those they murdered. It's hard to express quite how many items there were, especially knowing that this was only a fraction of what was taken.
Despite being a shocking place there was a sense of respect for the dead throughout.
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jane It must have been a very sad and moving experience - not sure I could do it