Desolate, empty and uninviting; a place haunted by memories of genocide and sadness. Auschwitz concentration camp is not exactly the kind of place you want to visit. Yet, it’s important to. Like many people I had seen films like Schindler’s List, and as a young girl I read Anne Frank’s diary. A few years ago I […]
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Visit to Mauthausen Concentration Camp
In a small countryside just outside of Linz, Austria, my emotions run uneasy. Chills climb throughout my body. You can’t really prepare yourself for visiting a place like a concentration camp. Mauthausen became one of the last liberated labour and death camps during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany in 1945. For almost 7 years, the confines […]
