Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Aug 12, 2008 15:19:10 GMT -5
I've always wanted to go myself but have never had the finances to do it.
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Post by Dynamite Kid on Aug 12, 2008 15:26:18 GMT -5
No, but I've met a Holocaust survivor and it made me feel like a dwarf to stand in such a presence. Amazing human being.
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Post by Loki on Aug 12, 2008 15:53:18 GMT -5
I went to Dachau, Ebensee and Mauthausen as part of a students' delegation with some survivors. It was quite an experience, and the atmosphere surrounding the camps, even some 50 years after the war, is awkward and "heavy". The camp themselves were impressive in a very sinister way. The only "off" part of a Memorial Ceremony was the presence of several Cuban flags, and even a Che Guevara one...  Sidenote, the survivors we traveled with were super-cool people; their stories and their reactions inside the camps were very touching, but oddly enough they were very funny during the bus-tour, especially around the coffee-machine  It's not an "easy" experience, but visiting a concentration camp is sure worth being done. P.S. It's Auschwitz... |
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Cheeba
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Post by Cheeba on Aug 12, 2008 16:09:40 GMT -5
I am going to Germany in September and will likely visit an actual Nazi concentration camp.
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Post by strykerdarksilence on Aug 12, 2008 16:14:58 GMT -5
I've been to Buchenwald and its Sub-Camp Langenstein-Zwieberge where some Jehovah's Witnesses were held under persecution in WWII. Chilling experience.
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Blindkarevik
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Post by Blindkarevik on Aug 12, 2008 20:40:01 GMT -5
Mmmmmmmm... Auswich.
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Post by dorf on Aug 12, 2008 21:40:34 GMT -5
No, but I have been to the one in eastern France in the thick of the Black Forest. What was done was just...wow. Speechless on what was done.
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@TenaciousBe
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Post by @TenaciousBe on Aug 12, 2008 21:43:57 GMT -5
I've been to a smaller memorial museum in St. Louis. Even that was hard to look at... can't imagine seeing the camps in person.
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Post by RatedRKoffee on Aug 12, 2008 22:35:37 GMT -5
Been to Bergen-Belsen (I'm sure I spelled that wrong). Very moving experience. A regular customer at my work is a survivor who just had her story published. I haven't read the book yet but a German officer saved her life.
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Dr. T is an alien
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Aug 12, 2008 22:45:06 GMT -5
I have not, but I saw a documentary on the memorial at Treblinka. Heavy, heavy stuff. That was the camp that the Warsaw Ghetto was emptied into (minus the Jews who took part in the uprising).
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