Human history is full of genocide. Being on the site of one is *not* a pleasant thing.
I know how you feel when you said it was like "people pushed" on your chest and made it hard to breathe. Honorable that you followed the tradition of many of the people tormented there.
I would lay a stone or two myself, there. Promise.
Last year in October I visited Ground Zero in New York, built on the Foundations of the Twin Towers.
It was... awful. The entire area felt like a mausoleum or mass grave, and I behaved like it was.
Some people were laughing, running etc, and I got disappointed in them... you don't do that in cemeteries!
When I entered the museum/ 9/11 memorial itself, I didn't cry until I saw what the world had written to the victims:
NO DAY SHALL ERASE YOU FROM THE MEMORY OF TIME.
That's when I broke down and cried for 10 minutes. Because I realized how much those words meant to me - they describe exactly what I think about my dad........ and no day (the day of his death) will remove him from the memory of time, because his memory will live on as I tell about him to others. (for those of you that don't know: my dad died abruptly when I was 12)
MchectorII
It must be very hard for you and many others to have seen the 'memories' left behind during one of the most painful times in modern history.The camps are powerful(and painful) reminders to everyone to never repeat such a mistake but sadly,these things still happen.
I'm glad you're back,so there,there.
NyanaCreation
Yah it was heart breaking but not only the memorials but just the place itself was mindblowing.
and your right these kind of things should never happen but in some things are used. i hope one day
that will be over.
i'm glad i'm back as well thanks for being there.