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Hey I'm Hannah... I'm a student at Worthing Sixth form college, in my second year and study Health and Social care and AS Psychology as I'm planning on becoming a nurse.
Life is great right now! There was a low time because of many reasons but thanks to friends and a bottle or many of Rose wine [yuuuummm!] things have got SOOO much better. Wicked nights out, cosy evenings in...defo got the right combination nowadays!
Han's quote of the year: "I'll try everything once"
I'd like to say a special thanks to all my friends who have helped me through so many difficult situations. I love you guys!
My visit to Aushwitz-Bikenau
Was an experience to say the very least.
For those of you who are unaware of Aushwitz-Birkenau i will give you a brief explanation. It was a concerntration camp built in Poland souly for one purpose - Death. Its was designed and built for the extermination of anyone that the Nazis did not see ..'desirable..'. It was 15 square miles and between 1.5-2 million people died here. To people who have not experienced the horror of Aushwitz like you and i, we can not imagine how many people that is. Well below i will help you understand this. Too me it was just a number.
I could not comprehend what it meant. My experience in Aushwitz was such a shock. When i walked into that room full of the suitcases of the people who believed they had come to Aushwtiz to work... They had been decieved right until the end of their life. None of these people ever saw their suitcases again. They were either forced to work for 11 hours a day with little food; sent to have medical experiements taken out on them in the cruelest way imaginable; or send straight to the gas chambers. They did not know what lay ahed of them whilst they hung up their shoes and striped off their clothes in the changing rooms. They believed they were all taking a shower... Up until that door was shut and Cyclone B was poured into the room and they all slowly suffocated.
The image of those suitcases will never leave me. Names of people...Real people with hopes and dreams and lives just like you and I. And their date of birth...Some of them just a few months old being sent to their death because of their race or religion. They had no choice.
The Average length of survival - 3-6 months (Thats if they were lucky and
My thoughts
You do not understand the evilness of some of humanity.
How people could do such a thing.
The deciete.
The betrayal.
They fought for you. They lost limbs to your war. And this is how you repay them? By taking their lives and the lives of their families?
You stripped them of their dignity. Their hair. Their clothes. You tattoo them. They are no longer a person, they are a number.
You starved them, beat them, stripped away their soul, stripped away their dignity, took away their children, drove them to madness, then finally murdered them, burned them.
What makes people this evil?
You cannot understand the amount of people that died to hands of these people.
If we had a 9/11 every single day for four years it still wouldn..'t make up for the amount of people who died in Aushwitz-Birkenau just 62 years ago.
What had they done to deserve this? Followed their religion, were individual. But people don..'t realise the extent of the holocaust. It wasnt just Jews that died it was a long list of people. Gypsies, homosexuals, Russian Prisoners Of War, even to the extent of people that they didnt like the look of, their nose were too big, their eyes were the wrong color.
My next thoughts were Why?... All these people tried to be was individual. They followed their own beliefs, they had their own identities. Nowadays people throw racist comments into a conversation just like it were normal...Well its not! This is what started this extermination. This is what started people believing that anyone that were individual should be killed. We cannot let this happen again. These mass killings cannot happen again. It was hidden from many people. Many haven..'t heard of Aushwitz and many will live in denial trying to ignore what happened between 1940 and 1945 in Poland but it cannot be forgotten. These people cannot be forgotten.
To anyone reading this i strongly recommend too you that you too visit Aushwitz-Birkenau. It has had a strong impact on my life, It helps you realise that not all people out their are good but also that there is goodness all around us in our everyday life.
So I..'d like to say Rest In Peace to the 1.5-2 Million people that died in Aushwitz-Birkenau and also the other 4 Million people that died in the other Concertration/Extermination camps.
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