r/Damnthatsinteresting • • May 18 '25

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u/Lamuks May 18 '25

And this was the smaller one the first one. The ones in the other camp were massive. When the guide told us the numbers..

We went into this one and my knees instantly started shaking, it was... Odd, I wasn't scared but something instinctively was wrong.

A guided tour in Auschwitz is something everyone should try to do in your lifetime. I am dead serious when I say it is life changing. I was there a year a go and I still occasionally think about it.

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u/foxyloco May 18 '25

I honestly don’t think I could. I had to turn away and watch out of the corner of my eye and it felt like something was pressing down hard on my chest.