Auschwitz (Oswiecim in Polish) is known the world
over as being the site where millions of prisoners lived or lost their lives in
barbaric conditions according to the selection process of
the Nazi's.
Much has been written and I can add no more. We were there as a part
of the one million plus visitors who visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site to
improve their knowledge of that part of mankind's history that has to be
seen to be believed.
The
barbed electrified wire, the watch towers, the cramped insanitary
conditions with prisoners sleeping on bare boards six to a layer and
four layers high, the torture cells, the gas chambers and the incinerators; we
saw them all.
Our excellent guide told us all in chilling detail.
One could not fail to be moved by her accounts of man's inhumanity to
man. My photographs will be displayed without many words.
The trees that are now mature were planted by the
prisoners; the Germans used them as gardeners.
