Auschwitz

Don't think I can describe the experience in words, but it certainly blew away anything I had imagined. I guess I never really sat down and thought about the scale of what happened in any specific place. I think someone said the second camp we went to Auschwitz-Birkenau was something like 500 acres. Just houses and barbed wire as far as you can see. They had even begun building another one that was gonna be the same size. There is a Polish suburb there now. The tour was just riveting, even having read books, been to other museums, taken classes etc. I am more humbled now than I have ever been. And to think the largest group killed there were Hungarian Jews(as was my grandfather), some 430,000! Fortunately I will be taking the train back to Hungary and not the other way. I feel blessed for having been able to pay my respects, in a sense not just to those who passed, but to those who could have been.