A History of Human Cruelty....

This blogging has been most difficult one to write and read....!! In this blog post i want to relay my experience with a heartbreaking piece of History. I will never find the right words to describe what Auschwitz is and what it represent. Auschwitz - Birkenau left me speechless and wordless because i know that what i wrote here wouldn't be adequate enough to capture all the feelings, emotions, thoughts and imagery which i had... Here really i have to thank one of my friend who made fun of me. Before i am going to Auschwitz i really not aware about how to pronounce it. The only thing which i known about this is a concentration camp. Really i am thankful to that friend who made fun of me. Because of you only i started to study more about the "AUSCHWITZ".

In my high school days, i heard about the Holocaust for the first time. For me this event was in the past; an atrocity from an age that no longer existed.

When i was read "Anne Frank's Diary" i was heartbroken for the victims but i was still detached. There was always an emotional distance while reading but once i was afforded the opportunity to enter "Auschwitz" with my own two feet and my own two eyes really that touches my heart with fearful tears. Nothing can ever prepare us for this. Reading a textbook gives you cold hard facts; watching a documentary dug deeps and would evoke emotions of horror, anger and sadness. But being there in the reality mostly i didn't felt nothing. Where the word nothing was filled with so many meanings. I am really out of mind....blank emotions.....took deep breath......!!!

A history of cruelty, the largest mass murder in a single location in human history. #Nazi Concentration Camp#. In reality , the Nazis built three main concentration camp. Auschwitz I,Auschwitz II (Birkenau) and  Monowitz or Buna.

Auschwitz I was the first main camp built by the Nazis, used as a headquarter for the SS and for the first experiments and murders , now turned into a museum. Held around 16.000 prisoners at a time. When i entered into the memorial i felt like i was in the hell. I really can feel the pain of millions and millions of innocent people . Each memorial of Auschwitz have millions of painful fearful stories to say.... which made a hard heartbreaking tears on me. This is not the limit of the horrors of Auschwitz I. It was also the site of disturbing medical experimentation of Jewish and Roma prisoners, including castration, sterilization and testing how they were affected by contagious diseases.

When i entered the gate of Auschwitz on 12th September my heart instantly froze there i was incapable of feeling compassion, horror or human pity. I had just passed the gate where millions of people walked to their death, and i felt completely numb. 

This is the main gate to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where every victim entered. In the gate they wrote "Arbeit macht frei" which means " Work will make you free". The prisoners thought they were going to labor camps, but in reality this was designed for Mass Extermination.

Fear was everywhere

The camp has been left almost untouched, just like it was when the Nazi left in January 1945. Now the concentration camp have turned in to a Museum. Most of the blocks were opened for visitors. 

The Museum is a path where each building or block with its number, has been given a particular name to show the visitors the horrors that took place during the Holocaust with pictures,signs and explanation panel. 

Double barbed wire electrified fences with armed guards made escape virtually impossible.

This is one of the barracks, 1,000 prisoners were held in one single barrack.

Inside the barracks is a memorial to all the personal items stolen and collected from the victims. There were walls and walls of shoes, eyeglasses, hairbrushes, home goods, even human hair that had been shaved and collected from the victims. It was really horrible and disturbing one. Still i can feel the pain of each victims who screamed for their life....

This is a courtyard between two barracks. When i looked it closely i saw the windows of these barracks are boarded and bricked up.  The soldiers did not want the prisoners to see what was going on in this courtyard.

This wall is where mass shooting execution took place.

Over 1.1 million people died at Auschwitz....

Auschwitz was not big enough to hold all the prisoners, so they built a second camp called BIRKENAU. This is 3 kilometer away from Auschwitz I, where the millions of people died in the gas chambers and from inhuman living conditions. It held more than 90.000 prisoners at a time and more than 1.5 million people (90% Jewish) were killed there.

They built a train track that ran directly into the middle of camp for faster deportation of the Jews.

These are the vehicle that transported Jews. They were originally meant for cattle. So there no enough space to stand straight for a person, the size maybe 20 people could squeeze in. But what is the sadist thing the Nazis packed in a minimum of 80 people in these vehicle. They were held captive in this vehicle for sometimes an entire week while they were being transported. They had no access to food, water or toilets during the trip. Most of them did not event survive the trip to the camp.

The Nazis destroyed the crematorium here in an attempt to hide their horrible crimes.

After the prisoners  were gassed in the crematorium here, the bodies then had to be transported to the ovens and burned. The Nazis did not want to do such a horrible job, so they made the other prisoners do it. These innocent prisoners were given the name "SonderKommando". They were separated from the other prisoners and never lived longer than 6 months, because the Nazis didn't want a single word spreading about what was actually happening in the concentration camp.

The primitive barracks where the prisoners lived at Birkenau were very sobering.

The prisoners slept on these three layer bunks. The bunks just hard wooden shelves with no mattresses or even straw for cushioning. The bottom bunk is just dirt and brick. I cannot even imagine how these innocent people slept  on bricks then having to get up the next morning and do hard work all day. Each bunk is about the size of a queen size bed. So two people could fit on each level. But NO a minimum of eight people were crammed on each level. Really painful to see.....i can't imagine have to breath this stale , dusty air day in and day out.

Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam, the Jewish Area of Prague, Berlin Wall and many other things remind me of the Nazis horrific behavior all over the Europe. Now i realized how painful is that word "HITLER" is for German People.  

After seeing Auschwitz, there was actually a mixture feeling of physical, psychological and emotional illness. The overwhelming feeling that i really wants to throw out. But this  feeling was then followed up with sadness, sorrows but more than that a very strong feeling of anger.  There was full of annoying noise within the silence. I could not remove from my mind the sound of lives that passed through these paths so many years ago.

It struck fear in my heart. Auschwitz was a stark reminder of what happens when intolerance  is accepted. When humans are dehumanized. Auschwitz is an emotionally moving and daunting place but don't let that be an excuse for not going.

I found myself in a bus back to Krakow, my mind filled with million thoughts and questions that will never find a rational answer. My body has returned to Germany but my heart and mind still in the same concentration camp. . This visit opened my inner eye......

Don't complain for unnecessary things....

You are the person who live in a safest place!
You have your own house
You get food for eating whenever you need
You have enough friendly faces around you
You have Everything more than enough....

When you start to complain about something which you are not satisfied, Remember that we had a past...

Where the people lives in inhuman condition

Who does not know what is peace
Who fight for a crust of bread 
Who ate human wastes for their survival
Who screamed out their whole life for their own life...
Who died by horrible torture, starvation, cruelty, ......!!!!