Today we went to Bergen Belsen. It’s a concentration camp. I didn’t really know what to expect..
We just got to the train station to leave for Prague. The concentration camp was not at all what I had pictured. The camp was burned after Britain liberated it, so all that was left of the buildings were the foundations. The one thing that really got to me was the mass graves. There were 14 mass graves filled with anywhere from 500 to 5000 bodies.
It was in a beautiful area of Germany, with butterflies, flowers, and gorgeous tall trees. It was so ironic that this was the site of a concentration camp. The hard thing was thinking about the fact that the victims were all tortured, starved, and forced to work on the ground we were walking on.
All in all, the concentration camp made me feel blessed to have the things and the freedom I do. It didn’t evoke as much emotion from me, as I expected, but it was still very impacting to me.
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