Auschwitz??

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Hey I'm goin to Poland in September and I'll be visitng Auschwitz while I'm there. I study History and I know it'll be a truely once in a lifetime experience, it's just I don't know what to expect, can it b a really emotional experience like everybody says?

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I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau a year ago, if you are familiar with WWII and holocaust history, you will feel very strong emotions that can hardly be described.
You can expect to be breathless (in a good way), impressed, and you can help to be sad for all the people that died horribly in that place 65 years ago.
Don't forget to touch the walls and to always have present that you will be standing in a place that was a synonymous of suffering.
Overall is a great profound experience.

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Yes, it is.
I will say no more, but when you've seen it, please tell us how you felt about it
yes it will certainly - everyone who I have spoken to who has been there has said that it is very moving and sad. But I hope that you find it the same as that is what makes us remember the sacrifices made during the pre-war Nazi and war periods.
i'd say it depends on how old you are like if you were alive during the war and knew people that died then probably so but when i went i wasnt just breaking down in to tears but im only 16 ( 14 when iw as there )
I have a friend who went on a study trip to Auschwitz and came back a completely different person. It was so strange. It really affected him emotionally. He now is a really active human rights campaigner.
Yes it will. I found the reactions of people finding records of family members particularly upsetting.

Do not plan on doing anything later on that day.

Wait til you see it, the site is huge. : (

The birds did not sing while I was there.
i can't imagine it NOT being emotional. there were millions of poor massacred souls there. I'm sure there is a residue of that there (i do not believe in ghosts). besides, all you have to really do is think about what happened there and i get all messed up. most us remember the terrible things that have happened in the past. we need to keep remembering them or we will be doomed to repeat history.