Auschwitz and Birkenau

During WWII Jews from across Europe were rounded up and transported to concentration camps.  Ninety percent of the arrivals to Auschwitz and Birkenau were sent directly to the gas chambers.  The other 10% endured slave labour, medical experiments, disease, starvation and a life expectancy of about 2 months.  It is estimated that 1.1 million people died here.  The images below show green grass but during the war there was no grass, as the prisoners would eat anything they could find.

In such polarized times such as we seem to find ourselves in, currently, this tour seemed appropriate.  Appropriate in that we must never forget what hate, false or otherwise, can lead good people to do.