It´s time to breath and think

Today is Auschwitz time.

Last year I made an exchange at school with Polish people. We were living in Lodz, a nice city from Poland. We were there sightseeing, knowing their culture...

One of the activities that impacted us a lot was going to Auschwitz. Lodz is more or less four hours to Krakov, and in the way we were all smiling, having fun, talking to each other, etc. At the moment we arrived it started raining, then we came in and everybody was quiet. During the visit we didn’t talk, we just stayed there trying to understand what happened there.

It was too cold, maybe four degrees, and we were freezing. After that, this image came into my mind: those people that had to be there without warm clothes, working very hard... It was horrible! We were in the coldest day in our stance in Poland, with warm clothes, and... What about them?

The tour took three hours more or less. We saw their rooms (if we could call it room) their baths, the poison gas rooms, etc. We were exactly in the same place where they suffered, it was terrifying. In the museum, they show us some pictures: one of them was about a woman that went there with sixty-five kilos and she died with forty-five. We saw their clothes, their backpack, and the women hair. Everything was real but incredible.

There was a moment in which all our polish friends were crying and it made us think about the effect it made in Polish people. I asked one of them after the visit and she told me: ‘’I believe that for everyone from Poland, Auschwitz is a special place. It reminds us of or gory history. Auschwitz is a great example that even nowadays people forget what humanity is. A lot of people- including women and young children suffered there from hunger or overworked. It is hard to express my feeling, misunderstanding to people who killed others only because of their extraction, human race and, what is the most important- greed for power.''

I encourage all of my readers to go there because is an experience you won’t never forget. It will be the best but also the worst day of your life. You could see it in films, people could tell you he story but when you really understand everything is when you go there and all their feelings go across you.

 But not everythink was like that... 
We made really good friends there:

-María