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Other than that, I'm expecting to feel about the same way I did last time I was there. You feel kind of numb for your first half hour or so, and it doesn't really start to hit until right before you go, and then you just feel very, very, very upset. I think with me, it's different than with most of the people in our group.
Last time we were there, [two students] kept saying, "How could we let this happen?" And my thought is, obviously, as a Jew, "How could they do this to us?" And in a way I feel like I'm unfairly victimizing, especially myself, since I personally had nothing to do with it. But I also realize it's probably the most important part of the history of my ethnicity or faith or whatever in the 20th century. It's also kind of a pain because everyone comes up to me afterwards and asks me what I thought. And it's true because I do have a different reaction than non-Jews....
-What do you think the purposes of concentration camp visits are?
Well, like that thing says by one of the barracks, in Hebrew, German and English, "So that the generation to come..." whatever it says. I memorized it last time I was there. So you can know, so you have it branded it your memory--like a cattle prod has done it, so you could never, ever possibly forget, and so it could never, ever possibly happen again, unless some unforeseen catastrophe occurs. I think it's massively important.
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