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I Saw This Earlier And Wondered
where some people's brains are. I'm Glad that Amazon have pulled this disgusting material.
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I’ve visited Auschwitz and there is no way I’d want a tacky tree ornament to remind me of the horrors that went on there
11:47 Mon 02nd Dec 2019
// I don’t know why anyone would want to visit a concentration camp, but 2 million visitors means it a big tourist attraction. //
I can see why some people might, perhaps because they have a family connection with some of the victims, and I can see why it's kept in place as a memorial.
However, I was in Krakow recently from where you can get coach trips to the place, and I felt no desire whatsoever to go there, nor would I ever.
I can see why some people might, perhaps because they have a family connection with some of the victims, and I can see why it's kept in place as a memorial.
However, I was in Krakow recently from where you can get coach trips to the place, and I felt no desire whatsoever to go there, nor would I ever.
But Khandro, it isn't a museum of artefacts. There are a few of the former bunkhouses as they were, and a few rooms containing human hair, suitcases, shoes, photographs of prisoners, retained for posterity. The rest - by far the vast majority - is just the camps as they were complete with uneven roads and no facilities for visitors except just one toilet for emergency use. And Birkenau, a few miles from Auschwitz is just a vast and incredibly bleak area with huts, the railway lines, and the gas chambers destroyed by the Germans remaining. I would never call it a museum. Have you been?
no it’s not a tourist spot, I went with friends and everyone one of us ( 16) were very upset at what we felt and saw, the touristy bit was left for Krakow afterwards ie the sal mines etc, the one thing that hit us was the unruly behaviour of some young Jewish students ,it’s in their school curriculum to go,same as Norway, they behaved appallingly showing no respect and wanting selfies at the ‘killing wall’ which is a double thick wall where they shot the prisoners and the bullets would ricochet off so people working in the nearby fields etc couldn’t hear what was happening, there’s an eternal flame at the base and people have lain flowers but these students weren't at all fazed by this
We wouldn’t have known where they were from but we were chatting to their guide who was Polish and educated in the States, he said his mini bus would need valeted as they’d opened tins of tuna in oil and they were throwing the oil at each other ,it was all over the windows and the seats, disgraceful behaviour
Just out of interest Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Israel - doesn't call itself a 'museum' - and that retains far more personal items and information about the holocaust than anywhere else. For me, personally, calling these places museums is simply disrespectful. They are memorials.
