Last weekend we drove about an hour to Bergen, Germany to visit the site of the concentration camp Bergen Belsen. It was an eerie feeling being in the exact same location where so many people suffered such horrible and unthinkable acts. Thomas pointed out while we were there that all of this happened just a little over 20 years before the year he was born... and just 60 miles from where he grew up. The memorial itself was full of information, but after about 30 minutes of reading the original documents on display and seeing photos, artifacts and video clips of both survivors and those who perished, I had had enough. It took a bit for the lump in my throat to go away... and I still have the images in my head.
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