| Seeing Auschwitz 09:43 - Sep 16 with 2689 views | Keno |
is anyone thinking of going to this?
https://seeing-auschwitz.com
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| Seeing Auschwitz on 15:18 - Sep 23 with 251 views | urbanblue |
| Seeing Auschwitz on 00:30 - Sep 18 by Terra_Farma |
Interesting.
What is there to see in the rural Lithuania communities?
I assume you have been? |
I visited the 'Hill of Crosses' in Lithuania some years ago whilst travelling through Eastern Europe.
Quite fascinating.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Crosses |  | | |
| Seeing Aushwitz on 15:52 - Sep 23 with 228 views | abracaDOBRA_ |
| Seeing Aushwitz on 22:14 - Sep 16 by Lord_Lucan |
I've been a couple of times, once in the middle of a bitter Polish winter and once in the sunshine
I strongly recommend going in winter - it hits you more. |
I went in the winter, big puffer coat, hats gloves etc. Was freezing. And then you see pictures of them in thin clothing, and where they slept. Awful |  | | |
| Seeing Aushwitz on 16:10 - Sep 23 with 200 views | WeWereZombies |
| Seeing Aushwitz on 14:29 - Sep 23 by Radlett_blue |
I have visited the best known monument of the Killing Fields, at the village of Choeung Ek in Cambodia. That was coupled with the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum , chronicling the Cambodian genocide. Located in Phnom Penh, the site is a former secondary school which was used as Security Prison 21 by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 until its fall in 1979. It made for a hard day, contemplating the irrationality of man's inhumanity to man. |
As well as Auschwitz and The Killing Fields (it is surprising how chilling a rusty iron bedstead can be once you are apprised of how it was used) I have visited Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg and the Cadeia do Aljube in Lisbon. You can start to feel guilty about 'collecting' these 'dark tourism' sites but I think it is a necessary part of our education to see and think about either Hiroshima or Nagasaki as well as one of the former concentration camps. Without bearing witness it is too easy to fall back into empty words and crocodile tears leading to hyperbole, but once seen I think there is a sober acceptance of the depths humanity can sink to that mitigates against that. |  |
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