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Before writing this post, I thought many times, if I should write it or not. If I should share photos or not. Many people think it is inappropriate to click and share photos for such a sensitive place. So I was wondering …
Many days passed since I visit Dachau .. Since that time, many destructive incidents took place in my concurrent world , there were paris attack, killing in Syria, bombing in Beirut and Baghdad, keeping hostage and killing in Mali , killing a doctor for performing immunisation in Pakistan , to name a few! Every day innocent blood has been shed .. And I realised not knowing is not the solution. We cannot keep our eyes shut until it is our turn. So I decided to do this post. Even if only one person becomes aware seeing this post, decides such cruelty should be stopped at any place, at any time, realises ” never again” , then I have done enough.
Now, I won’t be able to express the pain and hollowness in my heart I have felt in this memorial.. I won’t write anything, I only want to share some pictures of the place where thousands of souls are resting.
Rest in Peace ,the victims of Dacahu Concentration camp, we remember you.
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Thank you for sharing this. I think that it is important that we know what has happened in the past. That is the only way we will not be doomed to repeat it.
Marcey
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Thank you Marcey, that is very kind of you. I think this is a very small fraction of what actually happened but still people should know about it.
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Thank you for posting this.
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Thank you too for reading it.
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I have been haunted by this awful time in history since I first learned about this as a kid. It has never left my mind and unfortunately mankind did not learn from it’s darkest hour. This is the reason why I believe either God doesn’t exist or he has turned his back on mankind. Thank you for this most important post!!!!!!
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Thank you too for reading it. I think we human are the greatest power against evil. Still now several war going on, still now we do not know whether it is true what media is showing about Syria.
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For some reason, I am not able to see your blog. Can you look into it?
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Actually, I dismantled all of my blogs but I am still a reader of yours. I have blogged for many years and decided it was time to…. well, I don’t actually know yet but I will figure it out.
You have an outstanding blog that I continue to follow. Keep up the good work!!!
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Thanks a lot. But u do continue to write… Many readers ll miss you otherwise
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Thank you for your kind words. I always have so much going on in my head, it’s possible some of it could make it’s way into another blog! 😉
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History, both good and bad, needs to be remembered and shared. Unfortunately, text books too often sugar coat the atrocities of the past.
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Indeed. The authorities do not want us to know what has happened or what is going on!!
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Thank you for sharing those photographs. My dad went on a trip to Poland a few years ago and visited Auschwitz. He said it’s a place he had always wanted to see but once was enough for him. He was twelve when the second world war ended and remembers being shocked as a young boy at what had taken place in those camps. It’s still going on today, in one part of the world or another.
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Right, it is indeed going on. That’s why people need to know.
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Indeed extremely moving ! Many thanks, The Grey Eye, to have shared this !
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Thank you too for reading it
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Thanks for this post. I visited Dachau on a gloomy day in December 2008 and have very emotional memories of my visit. I visited with a colleague and his wife and after the visit while in the bus to get back to Munich, we couldn’t say a word as there were no words that could express the extent of our emotions and sadness. I have since visited a number of Jewish Museums and Shoa Memorials and they are as poignant as ever….A tragic time for certain.
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Definitely. I did not enjoyed the time, and I was visiting alone so it was too gloomy for me. I left with a heavy heart
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Thank you for finding the courage to post this. It was hard to read but more importantly had a meaningful message people should understand. I still can’t fathom how so many people in this world can lack complete compassion.
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Seriously.. I wonder about that too
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You remind me too for the two concentration camp that I visited in krakow , POLAND where Schindler used all is money to buy those prisoner and the other one is in RIGA , LATVIJA . The only we can do now is pray and remember all people died on those camp.
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I really want to visit krakow and auschwitz.
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Well-documented Hall of shame.
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Seriously it is
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Just hauntingly sad.
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It is indeed.
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Powerful post, it must never be forgotten.
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Yes, we should remember it so that it never happen again.
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These are difficult images to see, and such difficult stories that they tell, but it is important to know them. Thanks for posting.
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Thank you too for reading it
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Words totally fail me.
Virtual hugs,
Judie
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Thank you Judie
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Read in the history about concentration camps. This article left me in grief. Why some humans can’t be humane, I always wonder.
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Yeah many of us wonder as well. That is why we need to know, so that we can stop it
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Very moving. Thank you for showing this!
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Thank you JC for reading the post
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I visited Dachau years ago when I was a student and have never forgotten it. I think it should be shared so everyone remembers.
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I thought so too
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Thanks for sharing this. I visited the camp in May, 2015. It was extremely moving – very disturbing. At the same time, I’m glad I went. I’ll be doing a couple of posts on the visit in the coming weeks on my blog. I’d love to hear your insights.
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I share the same feeling, disturbing yet I must do it. I would love to share my thoughts on yr posts
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thank you…we must never forget
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Very good post…reminds us that life is precious! 🙂 🙂
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Sad part of history.
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Very interesting, and true. We can’t forget the past and need to learn from it.
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We all need to be reminded what happens when we ignore genocide. Very touching post.
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Thank you kerry
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Thank you for sharing this. I visited the Holocaust Museum in Melbourne and was shown around by survivors of the Holocaust. I left the place with a very sad feeling. Such gross atrocities must never be repeated but now, the world is facing a new kind of threat.
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Indeed, we are not living any better time.
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we must never forget and do what we can to prevent the powerful from hurting those weaker than them. thanks for the post
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Thank you for your valuable opinion as u ve told the right thing.
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In your travels, have you been to Oswiecim (Auschwitz)? Thank you for posting this. A heart-wrenching visit.
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It is indeed. I want to go to Auschwitz, and I want to visit Krakow , Poland too. Once history becomes alive, you cannot help but follow it everywhere.
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I agree wholeheartedly. I love discovering history everywhere I go. I haven’t been to Dachau, but this year we are taking our kids to Auschwitz during our visit to Poland. I will take my camera too…
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And post some photos please.
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I will. In the summer. I will link them to your post 🙂
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Ok, thank you
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Revolting but essential for all of us. Thank you.
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Thank you too for reading it
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I did my bachelors in Krakow, Poland. I must say this, you should visit Auschwitz.The sheer size of Concentration camp is overwhelming, and it was a day i will never forget and everyone should try to go at least once in their lifetime. I think no matter how hard it would be it is an experience that needs to be taken, they all need to be remembered and respected.
I was deeply affected 😦
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Yes, I agree with you
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Thank you so much for sharing.
As a Jewish person in England, I’m appalled – both at the recent rise in antisemitism in Europe, and at people ignoring this. So, this year, am going to call it out: online, in real life etc. Never again 😢.
Best wishes xxx
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Thank you for your kind comments. I never knew they are again doing the same mistake. But I can tell there are many kind of divisions in Europe. Being a brown skinned I faced racism few times. Recently one lady from England in ice hotel, just reversed her chair in front of me, and put her back to me. I didn’t realise at first, then I was angry and then I laughed. If she just knew, I get request every day from England to practice medicine there. But the incident is definitely thought provoking. If an old lady keeps so much hate in her for just skin colour, then how far people may go in the name of religion. I am very proud of my skin just like Jews or anyone are proud to be themselves. So, this incident acted as a metaphor to me. And I realised once more how much we need to awaken the people, the humanity in them.
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Am so sorry that that happened to you. People are so rude and unpleasant!
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Sometimes they are 😊
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Dachau was a heart-breaking visit for me as well. I just don’t have the courage and words to document my visit.
Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you for reading
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Thank you for sharing this. I may never see it in person so your pictures and captions show the tragic reality that happened.
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Thanks you for reading it.
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I’ve been two times in Dachai : one in 1986 with my mother when I was studying German in Munich , another time two years ago with my daughter of 15 years old & a couple of friends. Different times but same feeling …. sadness & the same question : how all this could have been possible??thanks for sharing , remember is caring 🙏 do not forget is a must for the next generations just read about it on books it’s not enough.
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Right, unless you see it on your own eyes, you can’t ever imagine what went on there. Actually even after seeing, we can understand only little of the actual torture!!😞
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Yes, but better understand a little bit & being astonished in fron of this than say it has never happened ! as someone tried to let us know…
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You are absolutely right. Recently I was watching a video in YouTube on Dachau, and I was surprised by people’s comments. A guy said no gas chamber death happened in Dachau and it is propaganda. I saw the gas chamber by my own eyes, and it is hard to believe that it was only for show!!
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Amazing !!! when I visited the first time 39 years ago, there was a mountain of glasses, hair, clothes & shoes ….it was really unbelievable to see how many people lost their own personal things before entering in the camp 😪😪😪
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Now I did not see these things, may be they are cleaned out.
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me neither the second time !
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Sad story… well told… photos exceptional.
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Thank you Thom
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This is not a post to ‘like’ as such however very well written and put together. A moving traumatic read and brought back memories of my visit to Buchenwald years ago. You come back from such a visit a changed person. Deeply moving.
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Yes, it is deeply moving for me as well
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Thank You for sharing this. Sadly it’s part of mankinds past. I do understand why you weren’t sure to post this at first.
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Yes, it is shameful past. I was not sure because it is too painful and sensitive
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Totally understand. Think of it this way- it’s important to remember the past so we don’t repeat our mistakes in the present and the future.
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There really are no adequate words to express all that is this site and others like it. No words. Only tears.
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Yes, so true
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Thank you for sharing those photographs. I read about Auschwitz of Poland, saw the movie Schindler’ list,feeling unexplainable pain whenever l see these type of news and photographs . We can pray and remember those souls died on those camp.
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And we can learn from those incidents.
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Yes definitely!
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It is truly sad what “humans” can inflict on other humans, when they consider them disposable, inferior or substandard. Thank you for sharing. Another location that everyone should visit is Ground Zero in Hiroshima. That brought us to tears in 1985. Allan
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I want to, definitely will go some day!
If you come to India do visit Yaad-e-Jallian which tells the audience about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre at New Delhi. It will give similar experience.
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