Horrible places..

Kenny · Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 18

As some of you maybe know me and my class are going down to Krakow in Polan, on the trip down we are also going to visit Auschwitz..

Ive never been at a concentration camp - Im exited over it, but at the same time its a very horrible place..

Have you ever been to a place that really gave you a nasty feeling ?
Like concentration camps etc..

cocodrilo · Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 494 Location: Western Japan

Kenny wrote: As some of you maybe know me and my class are going down to Krakow in Polan, on the trip down we are also going to visit Auschwitz..

Ive never been at a concentration camp - Im exited over it, but at the same time its a very horrible place..

Have you ever been to a place that really gave you a nasty feeling ?
Like concentration camps etc..
My brother visited those places a couple years back and said it was enough to make a grown man cry. (The documentaries I have seen on the places have had that effect.)

When I visited the Peace Park and War Memorial in Hiroshima, I had a very eerie feeling. When the US fighter plane "Enola Gay" dropped the bomb on Hiroshima that fated day, the entire city was blown away, annihilating the town, with the exception of the skeletal framework of a bank in the middle of town, which still remains to this day. At night it is lit up and generates a particularly eerie feel. When in the War Museum, we were watching the video of the Enola Gay dropping the bomb, me, an American surrounded by Japanese. Boy did that tear me apart feeling sorry for what my country did to these people. The other part of the museum showed wartime memorabilia and numerous photos of people with horrendous keltoids(mass scar tissue) who were burned by the radiation.

David · Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 162

My sister and brother in law visited Normandy where there was a great battle. Apparently there are crosses everywhere where people died. Apparently it is both beautiful and surreal. I'm not sure if I would ever want to go there.

cocodrilo · Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 494 Location: Western Japan

David wrote: My sister and brother in law visited Normandy where there was a great battle. Apparently there are crosses everywhere where people died. Apparently it is both beautiful and surreal. I'm not sure if I would ever want to go there.
What about visiting a place like Arlington cemetery? I don't think that would freak me out, but looking at those thousands of crosses, all neatly lined up on that perfect lawn would certianly be an eye-opener.

Kenny · Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 18

David wrote: My sister and brother in law visited Normandy where there was a great battle. Apparently there are crosses everywhere where people died. Apparently it is both beautiful and surreal. I'm not sure if I would ever want to go there.

I really want to visit this place, Very interesting place and history..

Jonathan · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 185

I visited the concentration camp at Dachau, Germany, back in 1991. I don't think I can really describe what that was like. The only other place I've been that evokes the same magnitude of horror is Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial and museum in Israel.

Laura · Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 446 Location: San Francisco

I've been to a number of US Civil War battlefields. The whole area around Gettysburg is so beautiful, it's sobering to drive around there and think of the bloody battles that were fought. Same thing for Manassas, Virginia -- just gorgeous rolling countryside, and also the place where so many lives were lost.

donkeh · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 30

I think sights like that can be very depressing, but I also think they'd be very interesting to see and get a feel for what it was like for the people there.