Normally when we travel, The Gotham Gal posts about the things we do. She is a way better travel blogger than I am.
But today we did something that I want to talk a bit about.
We visited the Auschwitz concentration camps in southern Poland.
This is the first time I have visited one of these camps.
I have been to the various Holocaust memorials and have seen the photographs and heard and read the stories.
But being there in person is something else.
Staring into the rubble of a gas chamber (one of four at Birkenau) where hundreds of thousands were murdered because of their ethnicity and faith takes your breath away and fills your heart with dread.
It is not a pleasurable experience in the least.
But it is a very moving one.
One of the things I have come to understand about life is that bearing witness is something we must all do. We cannot avoid the pain of humanity. We must stare it in the face and feel it.
We did that today and I am glad we did.
