In 2006, we toured Eastern Europe and one of our most poignant stop was at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Having taught Anne Frank in my Literature lessons for years, I've always wanted to pay a visit to Auschwitz personally so I can bring back some photos and anecdotes for my students. This trip enhanced my perspective of the magnitude of the war crimes committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust and I pained for each atrocity that was commited on this ground to our fellow mankind. How Anne must have suffered and millions of
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Gate to Auschwitz The entrance to Auschwitz I wasand still ismarked with the sign...
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Halt! One of the many danger signs dotting the compound.
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The road that leads to death Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration...
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Railroad tracks The entire Auschwitz camp was housed in former Austrian military barracks.
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Guardian of the track...
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So this is Birkenau... Like all German concentration camps, the Auschwitz camps were operated by the...
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Barbed and Bruised
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A flower for each soul Auschwitz - Birkenau was was the site of the deaths of at least 960,000 Jews,...
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Electrified Perimeter Fence
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Hangman Poles where prisoners are hanged or executed.
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In loving remembrance... of those who perished here in Auschwitz some 60 years ago.
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Rows of barracks where the prisoners were housed.
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Untold horrors... of hair being shaved off and made into wool...
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Prosthetics being ripped off... to be sold as scrap metals...
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Shoes of the millions... belonging to children, men, women, young and old...
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How many were robbed... of their most basic need for food, warmth and security?
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Luggages... some still bearing the names of it owners...
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Robbed of their sight.... mountains of spectacles crying out for justice....
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Cyclone Gas Those who were marked for extermination went to the gas chambers of...
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Last walk through the Corridors...
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Interrogation inside the SSroom
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A peek into the Cell
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The Crematoria Interior of the crematorium of Auschwitz.
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If walls could speak.... they would be wailing for the souls of the victims...
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Bunked Bunk beds in the Auschwitz. There were as many as four inmates per...
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The Heater that wasn't... Many prisoners died of extreme cold and starvation here in the camp...
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Washroom? Latrines for prisoners of Birkenau.
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Gas Chamber Interior of the Gas Chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Some scratch marks are...
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Auschwitz in IR How it might look like in Winter...
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Barbed Wire in B&W
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Amongst the ruins, there is beauty...
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The storm has passed, will another brew?
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Bolts on the tracks... they have witnessed the history and withstand the passing of time...
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Leading 2 Birkenau
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End to an era of Anti-Semitism... On June 28, 2007 the United Nations World Heritage Committee officially...
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