I went to Krakow Sat. night, attended the tiny branch Sunday morning and toured Sunday afternoon, then left town for Auschwitz Monday morning. For all of my reading, for all of my film-viewing, for all of my exposure to stories and pictures and memories of World War II, I was not prepared for the atrocity that was Auschwitz I and Birkenau. It was a sobering visit. Birkenau was bigger than any site I could have imagined. I have never, and believe I will never again, see humanity at such a sickening and horrific low.
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