Friday, June 13, 2025

Day 4 in Poland - Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp

 had signed up for a day tour to  Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp at S$145.35 each...i tot the 7am indicated upon sign-up refers to the pick-up / meet-up time... 


Nopx, it was the time we reached the concentration camp and the drive there from the meet-up point near our apartment was 1.5 hours!!! Heng, i slept early the night before !!! 😂😂😂


a place that looks so peaceful and serene now... who would have thought that it was where more than 1 million murder took place during WW2 & the holocaust... 

batch by batch of 40-ish people per guide 

through the gate of no return for that million 😭😭😭

display of ashes of former prisoners which was collected from the crematorium after the liberation of this camp


they didnt know what awaited them when they boarded the trains with their love ones and their belongings... 


this gassed them



their belongings





windows were sealed up to block the scene where thousands of prisoners were murdered by the firing squad at the Death Wall ... what about the sound of gunshot then?


为什么会下得了手?

the reality of 不下手, 那下一个死的就是我 ?

or they had became so mentally numbed that each person or each trainload of people they killed were just work? 



could the ashes in the urn be from here?


where camp commandant, Rudolf Hoess, was hung


waiting for me in style while i look look see see in the gift shop


Which side are you soldier-ing with?

Do you have the courage to stand up against authority at the risk of losing your own life ?



在一个笑不出来但得拍 "在此一游" 的地方




a short bus ride away was the main entrance gate with the guard tower 



it was here where trainloads of prisoners alighted then walked themselves to their graves



crematorium and gas chamber ruins; destroyed by the nazis just before liberation day to 'hide' their atrocity crime






不贪, 不自以为是 就能世界和平吗?

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