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I've never gone to a concentration camp and, frankly, am pretty frightened.
Images of movies (Schindler's List in particular) haunt my imagination and
what to expect. I expect gray, massive buildings and deserted gravel.
I'm scared as to what my reaction will be because I know that I am supposed
to feel something, but what if I don't? What if the concentration camp does
not evoke any feeling from me? I feel I should react to the camp as I have
to movies that I have seen...a feeling of complete and utter helplessness
and shock. What if the images from movies evoke more feeling from me than
my actual experience seeing the camp? These are but mere insecurities I
feel. Mainly, I fear being overwhelmed by visiting the camp. I think it's
human to feel scared about going to a site where thousands, millions have
been murdered. It's chilling to think of it now.
Upon visiting the concentration camp, images from what I've read, studied
and seen will probably blur my vision and I'll probably imagine the
atrocities that have occurred there. I've studied the World War II in-depth and read lots of literature on the Holocaust, and never in my life did
I think that I would actually visit one, nor did I really ever have the
desire to visit one, but I know that this experience will alter my
life....how, I'm not too sure.
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