by TheWhistlerify » August 19th, 2012, 6:23 pm
I read it last year. Even when I was in Poland with my school a few weeks ago and even though we've been in the extermination camps and inside the actual gas chambers, I still can't believe that it all happened, and my entire grandfather's family (which was of almost 100 members if not more) died there in Auschwitz in that same gas chamber I entered. We've also been to Birkenau, Majdanek and Treblinka as well as the remains of some ghettos.
There's nothing left of Treblinka except for monuments in memory of the Jewish communities from which Jews were sent to that hellhole. Not only that, but it's also surrounded by trees, and there's even grass there as if nothing ever happened! You really can't comprehend that almost 900,000 people were murdered there even when standing at the very spot. Despite how alive the place looks now, it's as silent as a graveyard. There are no singing birds. If you dig in the ground a little, your hands will become dirty with ashes.