Dear Steemit community,
Two days ago the January 27th it was the International Holocaust Remembrance day. According to the history the same day in 1945 the red Army liberated this dreadful area from the nazism and commemorate the genoicide was consumed inside it.
I decide to write a short post about my learning experience visiting one of the most saddest I have ever visited in whole Europe situated in nearby the Polish town Oświęcim sixty - five kilometers far from Krakow. (Another one was the musuems I visited in Vilnius Lithuania and mentioned in one of my previous post).
In the next picture the phrase written in German language means "the work will make you free"
It is estimated that in this concentration camp were deported Jews from different countries. Most of them were from Hungary (430.000) Poland (300.000) France (69.000) Netherlands (60.000) Greece ( 55.000) Slowakia (27000) Belgium( 25.000) Austria and Germany (23.000) Ex - Jugoslawia ( 10.000) Italy (7500) Norway(690)
Plus approximately 34000 relocated from other nazi concentration camps. Nowadays it houses a museum with witneess of people deported
And the owen in which people lost their lifes
I do not know which adjective is the most suitable for those photos.
It is told that if a Polish prisoners escaped, the familly members were arrested and sent to Auschwitz. They were made to stand under a sign announcing the reason for their arrest and they had to remain in the camp until the fuggitive were found.
In one of the blocks Jews women were used by doctors for sterilization experiments , the one who did not die and survived kept their injuried on their body.
I would conclude this post by saying that I found this visit very educative as well as sad also because of this famous quotation found in one of the rooms (Written both in Polish and English language).
I think the meaning of this sentence is clear . "Never happen again such tragedy " - " Do not repeat the same mistake" "Learn from the mistake"
In my opinion visit "sad locations" improve our knowledge, experience and optimize our wisdom from them.
As Robert G. Cross said that the wisdom is the optimization of knowledge
Peace out