|
|
|
-What was your reaction to our visit to Buchenwald?
Going to Buchenwald was a very grim and disturbing experience for me. The visit was actually quite like my visit to Sachsenhausen three years prior in that it
was very solemn, gray, quiet, and cold, both in a physical and psychological
sense. I must admit, however, that I did learn quite a bit, especially about
the other groups of people who were persecuted in the concentration and
extermination camps. I felt like going to Buchenwald was a good experience for
me to actually see what one of these "death" camps actually looke like from the
inside, how they functioned, and what the inmates did on a daily basis. For
instance, I was thoroughly surprised to learn of the art production that took
place in the camps and that there were clubs where the SS would be entertained
by the inmates.
However, given all this, I must say that I might try to avoid
my next concentration camp visit, if at all possible. For some strange reason, I
feel as though I can smell some odor of rotting corpses or burning coal or
something. It is really frightening to think and imagine what actually went on
in those place of toil and death.
How were expectations of the visit met or not met?
This again is a really hard question because I did not know what to really expect in going to the camp.
>>
|
|
|
|
|
| |