Brian Reedy, S.J. gives us a glimpse of his visit to the German Nazi concentration camp.An excerpt.
We went to Auschwitz yesterday. It was really an experience for which words are inadequate but I will try. We saw two of the largest concentration/extermination camps of the holocaust. We saw thousands of shoes, combs, toothbrushes, and other personal items that had been confiscated from the prisoners. We saw lots of children's things. We saw a whole room full of hair that had been shaved from the women and then used in textiles for the German army. We saw where they lived and died. Where they were selected and separated. Where their wasted bodies, finally free of torture, were cremated by the millions. We couldn't take pictures inside the buildings so all I have are some pics from outside.
We went to Auschwitz yesterday. It was really an experience for which words are inadequate but I will try. We saw two of the largest concentration/extermination camps of the holocaust. We saw thousands of shoes, combs, toothbrushes, and other personal items that had been confiscated from the prisoners. We saw lots of children's things. We saw a whole room full of hair that had been shaved from the women and then used in textiles for the German army. We saw where they lived and died. Where they were selected and separated. Where their wasted bodies, finally free of torture, were cremated by the millions. We couldn't take pictures inside the buildings so all I have are some pics from outside.
Link to the full post from the Strake Jesuit student English language mission pilgrimage trip (here) . The picture is of the liberation of Auchwitz picture taken by a warplane flying over the death camp.
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Brian Reedy SJ is the Jesuit interviewed at the end of installment 6 of Jesuit Review!
http://www.companionofjesus.com/jesuitreview/jr-installment06.html
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