A Most Thankful Thanksgiving

Auschwitz-Birkenau might be one of the best known names in history for being the site of one of the most heinous crimes against mankind. Reading about it in textbooks children around the world learn about the atrocious events that occurred here between 1941 - 1944, but a visit to this massive outdoor museum/memorial invokes the deepest emotions and vivid understanding about the events that happened. I cannot think of a more humbling place to have visited on my Thanksgiving with my family and friends safely at home sitting inside their warm houses and eating their lavish feasts, it was impossible not to shed a tear imaging that same family and friends enduring the horrors of this hell on earth.  Pictures not words express the feelings inspired here…

Train that delivered thousands to there death

              The infamous scene of Birkenau's entrance and last thing so many souls would see.

                                                  GUARD TOWER AT BIRKENAU

 The ruins of one of the gas chambers where unsuspecting victims would meet their cruel demise.

Incinerator to burn the bodies of those "Exterminated", destroyed by the Nazi's as they retreated.

                                                              Glasses of victims.

                                             The houses of Jewish workers at Auschwitz

                            The furnaces used to cremate and hide the remains of those killed.

                                                              Faces of Victims

                                Shoes of victims,,, Each one symbolizing a loss of life.

             Suitcases surrendered by arriving Jews that would be sorted for reusable possessions.

                                            Toilet for over 10,000 women prisoners

                                                      Twins sadistically experimented on.

                                           VICTIMS AND THEIR DATES OF MURDER

                                     ENTRANCE TO AUSCHWITZ "WORK FOR FREEDOM"