Robin, I have been to the US Holocaust Museum. Spent about 4 hours there, which was all my wife and I could take. This was long before going to Auschwitz. What is so sad and shocking is that despite all the "lessons," humans are still dehumanizing each other.
A US-based experience, not anything close I suppose to yours at Auschwitz, available to us who might not travel there, is the US Holocaust museum in Washington DC. About as an immersive experience I've ever had at any museum. You start at the top, fourth floor, after first getting a passport you can select. What is particularly valuable is the perhaps first 50 or 75 ft of display there which explains how fascism and Nazism got a start in a supposedly advanced culturally aware country. There is a railroad car, there's an entire room of shoes and boots. Children's paintings. Be advised not to go alone.
Never forget doesn’t seem to mean never repeat. Bosnia, Rwanda, Myanmar, China. Gaza, Sudan, and now America will start putting people in camps. We remain a flawed species.
Robin, I have been to the US Holocaust Museum. Spent about 4 hours there, which was all my wife and I could take. This was long before going to Auschwitz. What is so sad and shocking is that despite all the "lessons," humans are still dehumanizing each other.
A US-based experience, not anything close I suppose to yours at Auschwitz, available to us who might not travel there, is the US Holocaust museum in Washington DC. About as an immersive experience I've ever had at any museum. You start at the top, fourth floor, after first getting a passport you can select. What is particularly valuable is the perhaps first 50 or 75 ft of display there which explains how fascism and Nazism got a start in a supposedly advanced culturally aware country. There is a railroad car, there's an entire room of shoes and boots. Children's paintings. Be advised not to go alone.
Never forget doesn’t seem to mean never repeat. Bosnia, Rwanda, Myanmar, China. Gaza, Sudan, and now America will start putting people in camps. We remain a flawed species.
The most shocking thing I learned from a tour of Auschwitz was how profitable it was...
I did not know...I should have known...