Auschwitz

Auschwitz

Our group also made a day trip to Auschwitz. When we went to the concentration camp by bus everybody thought about what would happen there and what we were going to experience. Everbody was very nervous. We arrived there with very bad feelings.

First we watched a film that provided us with some background information about Auschwitz. After having watched the film we visited the real ground where all the terrible events had happened. The first sentence we saw were the famous cynical words„Arbeit macht frei" at the entrance. Then we got deeper into the history. We saw all the houses where the prisoners lived, worked and suffered. It was horrible to see all the rooms with the history of so many people who were killed. In one room we saw all the documents and how the people came to Ausschwitz; in another room we saw the hair and the shoes of all these victims. We saw the „bunker" without any daylight and so many different rooms with other functions. One of the most horrible rooms was of course the crematory where all the corpses were burned.

All in all it was shocking but worthwhile to visit the concentration camp and it made us think about how lucky we are to live in such a safe, democratic Europe.