continued.. Tuesday July 11th, 2006

Birkenau – The Main Gate

The unloading ramp inside the camp Birkenau, this is where the SS doctors carried out selections among the new arrivals into the camp.

Toilets

Ruins of the Crematorium

Pond of Ashes

In Birkenau I saw the platform where they chased us out of those cattle cars and pulled us apart from our loved ones, only to never see or hear from them again. WHERE WAS THE WORLD?—WHERE WAS G-D? WHERE WAS HUMANITY? So many questions, but no answers. They showed us the torture chambers, the experimental rooms, etc. etc.

Later on in Birkenau, they showed us the marsh area where they dumped tons of ashes in the swampy waters, which now after 61 years, still visible. Now they have many frogs living and surviving in those marshes among the ashes of our dear departed ones. They were showing us the fiery pits where so many bodies were dumped to be incinerated because the crematoriums could not process or burn the bodies fast enough. It hurts to know that humans are capable of such atrocities. This fact must always remain a Black Mark to Mankind.

However, there was one satisfying moment near the end of our Auschwitz and Birkenau tour. They have erected a new memorial monument near the blown up ruins of the crematoriums and near the dump site where all the ashes are scattered.