"The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it."
-David Novak
There are always things I want to do and in the back of my mind, I question if I should do it. Visiting a concentration camp was one of those things. However, it was truly an enlightening experience. Being able to experience this turned everything I had seen online and learned in school into real pictures in my head.
It was a 6-hour day with a fully guided tour and we happened to get an amazing tour guide who taught us so much about Berlin in general. The camp is located in Oranienburg Germany, which is less than an hour away from Berlin. It housed criminals, homosexuals, communists, and Jews and they wore different colored triangles so the Nazis could differentiate between the different prisoners. Many of their Jewish prisoners were also transported to Auschwitz because Sachsenhausen didn't have the capacity to kill large amounts of people until 1943 when the gas chambers were constructed.
This picture below is the entrance to the camp and the slogan reads, "work makes you free".
Below are the gas chambers which for me was the hardest to see.
On each bunk of the bed, they would put up to 3 or 4 people.
Pieces of clothing found around the camp.
The Jewish would put rocks on top of where they buried the dead to protect them from animals that might dig them up.
Memorial statue
"The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it." -David Novak There ...
