On the day after I arrived in Krakow, Poland, I took a tour to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum located in the town of Oświęcim, about an hour or so away from Krakow, and it was one of the more difficult tours I have done anywhere but it was one of the main purposes of my wishing to go to Poland in the first place. The sheer number of victims of the Holocaust, the conditions they were put under, and the fate of most of them are beyond imagination.
You would think “never again” to war after seeing something like this but somehow we are still so far away from peace to all.
A blog by Ayako Mathies 