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\"A<\/a>
A memorial now, this wall was where prisoners lined up awaiting execution.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are certain places that are too powerful for words to accurately describe, and the Auschwitz concentration camps in Poland are paragons\u00a0of this idea.<\/p>\n

We all have learned about the somber stories of the Holocaust: Jews and other \u201cundesirables\u201d taken from their homes and stuffed into trains tighter than sheep at a slaughterhouse, forced to work and die at camps all around Germany-controlled Europe.\u00a0 As we toured through Auschwitz I, the Auschwitz camp with most of the military barracks and gas chambers, we came across two factors that put the experiences of its victims into\u00a0a perspective that cannot be actualized through simply reading a textbook.<\/p>\n

\"Collections<\/a>
Collections like these are common. In the picture are children’s shoes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first of which was the cold.\u00a0 Despite wearing jackets, hats and gloves, we were all freezing cold.\u00a0 One of our team members reminded us that the prisoners wore next to no clothing when first arriving at these chambers, and their allotted clothing\u00a0soon after turned\u00a0meager at best. Finding the weather daunting after exiting a bus with AC and wearing multiple layers, the idea of it being so much worse struck us with an unprecedented graveness.\u00a0 In addition to this, chambers throughout the camp were lined with prisoners\u2019 belongings behind glass displays spanning the length of the entire room.\u00a0 There was one filled with children\u2019s shoes, another with luggage and baskets.\u00a0 The two the stuck out the most to me were the hallway filled with removed prosthesis from men, women and children all alike, and the display containing a mountainous amount of shaved women and girls\u2019 hair.<\/p>\n

\"Inside<\/a>
Inside the gas chambers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As for personal shock, the gallows left more of an impact to me than the gas chambers.\u00a0\u00a0 In eighth grade my class read the autobiography Night <\/em>by Eli Wiesel and a passage from it mentioned a man who was hanged from the gallows.\u00a0 It took him 15 minutes before he died because he was too malnourished for the rope to effectively snap his neck.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The gallows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Auschwitz II, also known as Birkenau, was more like a huge pasture.\u00a0 This was where most of the prisoners stayed.\u00a0 The tour guide told us that prisoners favored removing waste from the restrooms because they would smell so putrid that the SS soldiers wouldn\u2019t go near them to \u201cmake an example\u201d out of them.\u00a0 The day\u2019s whole experience was a very eye-opening and educational one that would not soon be forgotten.<\/p>\n

\"On<\/a>
On the railroad track in front of Birkinau.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The ashes of Jewish prisoners that were able to be salvaged.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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