Auschwitz

Hey everyone,

This is a quick update. I went to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp today. I don't really know what to think of the place.

It seems like it is both shocking and underwhelming at the same time. Shocking because obviously everyone knows what went on there. To see the size of the place, and the living conditions, and to hear the number of people that passed through there is quite amazing, but I was expecting more of a shock.

The thing is, when you are there, it is really hard to picture it all. When someone tells you that 1.5 million people died here, that numebr is so large, you can't really picture that many dead people. There's a word I'm looking for for that case, when something is so large, you can't really picture it in any relevant ways. When you are there, you just see a bunch of buildings.

I really find that the movies are much more impressive/though evoking/powerful. You actually see the acts taking place and you actually see the quality of life. When you go into a real life gas chamber you are expecting something stunning, somehow. All it really is is a big, square, concrete room like a million basements I've seen before, except with two little holes in the top.

Anyways, I have to go, people want onto this PC. 50 members of a church choir just showed up at this hostel, and it's packed now.

Later.