Auschwitz... A moment of silence

In all the madness of Steemfest there was also an afternoon of reflection. I felt the silentness and the loneliness slipping in from the second that the tourbusses stopped as we reached Auschwitz.

For some reason the whole Second World War has a special interest on me. I remember from all history classes back in the days I would't care too much about Roman times, prehistorics and Napoleon times, but the second world war has something that keeps drawing my attention back to it.

Remember the Wannsee konferenz?

The different camps in Auschwitz

Honestly I didn't even know that there were different types of camps until we were there. The most footage that you always see is from Auschwitz-Birkenau. Which was 100% designed to efficiently separate the workers from the 'non functional jews' what actually meant that a tremendous amount of woman, children, elderly and disabled were sent to the gas chambers to die.

Walking over Auschwitz-Birkenau was disgustingly impressive, the magnitude of this whole operation. But the true silence sank into my head when being back in Auschwitz 1, which is now turned into a sort of an exposition. Seeing tremendous amounts of human hair, shoes, and other personal belongings from people who all have been killed there was just a ball in my stomach.

This was to me a moment that I had rather skipped on. Actually standing in a gas chamber where so many people had their last living moments before being gassed to death with Zyklon-B gas ...Letting that thought sink in literally made a ball in my stomach, and I am sure every other person that was walking along with me had the same type of feeling

No proper words are meant to be said for these kinds of horrors. Auschwitz is a terrible proof of how deep we can sink as humans. It would be naive to say that this can and never will happen again, but hopefully a place like this reminds us of how evil is around the corner