Dani goes to Auschwitz

Auschwitz was extremely heartbreaking obviously, so I will only describe it by showing you some pictures of the atrocities that happen within it's walls.
Most of the main camp was burned down right before liberation; once the Nazis knew the Red Army were coming they did a good number on clearing up the evidence, but enough of it has still survived, allowing us to really see what has happened there...

Sign at the entrance reads "Work Shall Set You Free"

Barbed wire fence to keep the prisoners in...

Bags belonging to those who arrived. They were tricked into thinking they were simply relocating. They were told to only bring one bag. They packed all of their valuables, money and heirlooms into those bags. Travesty.

Children's clothes

Shoes of those exterminated in the gas chambers.

Straw beds - the comfier beginning of the concentration camp...

A mural painted by one of the prisoners, to keep from losing his sanity.

"Beds" lived in by the deteriorating population of the camp. Their bodies were so decrepit they could not contain their bodily functions, so you can only imagine the smell (and why it was best to be on the top bunk)

One priest was declared a Saint after he died in this cell, sacrificing his life to save a Jewish man.

A holding cell for prisoners who did not do as they were told. Small and pitch black, drove them to lunacy (if they didn't die of starvation or lack of oxygen first)

The trapdoor they were forced to crawl in to get to that holding cell.

Where prisoners were taken out and shot if they stood up to their Nazi wardens.

Directly beside the first ever gas chamber, the man who ran Auschwitz was hung for his crimes against humanity, after the war.

Scratch marks in the gas chambers - those people fruitlessly to claw their way out.

Crematorium

Auschwitz-Birkenau - the real scene of the most devastating crimes against humanity.

Living quarters of one of the only remaining bunks after the Nazis burned the place to the ground.

The infamous train tracks. Women and children were sent directly to gas chambers from these trains. Strong men often got to live and work for a while longer, before perishing as well.

Each set of chimneys represents a former bunker. Though the bunkers were burnt down, their presence remains.