The Killing Machine and Undaunted Courage
I am standing on the Judenrampe at Auschwitz and I can smell the raw fear of those that alighted here, see the hopelessness in their eyes and sense their desperation - this was the end, their life flashing before their eyes. I am entirely overwhelmed, not prepared for the enormity of this place, spread over 6000 acres of Polish countryside, just about 1/5th the size of San Francisco. The Judenrampe Who builds a prison to house and kill more than a million people? There's a pall of death that hangs all over. Built in the sleepy town of Oświęcim, 54 Kilometers from Krakow, the Auschwitz - Birkenau extermination camp remains the world's largest crime scene. Unending Ruins of Prisoner Barracks Herded like cattle in railway wagons with no windows, just like this one, their fate was to suffer denigration, looting, dehumanization, assault and finally murder. Railroad Wagon used to Deport Jews from Ghettos Wearing just striped pajamas, stripped of their humanity, how did the few tha