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Camp Sachsenhausen

Posted by NyanaCreation - July 1st, 2017


Hey Guys,

So last week i have been on a trip and i wanted to talk about a place where i have been and that made a real infloance in my life and i wanted to to share this story with you all because it's inportant. 

So last week i was in Berlin for a trip so i and other people could learn more about the history there. I already am a History nerd so to speak and i am intressted in what happend with alot of things especially stuff about world war II. at the end of the trip we went to Camp Sachsenhausen. for people that don't know that is a camp where the jews, gay people, people who where against Hitler and fought for there goals and so maney more people where brought. some where let free in the beginning but there where also people executed or tortured. 

Camp Sachsenhausen isn't a place for people who don't understand what happend because this is a real place where really bad things happend. when i first saw the gate where the words ''Arbeit macht frei' stood i felt already bad. when i walked in instanly felt a strong force. it felt like people where puching on my chest and it was hard to breath. 

I have seen the Barracks where the people slept in. i saw the original beds and cloths and shoes from the people that where found there. i even saw one of the original prison suites they had to wear there. on that point i was trying to calm myself down. i even have red some letters from a 12 year old saying she was scared to die but they wouldn't let them. it was heart breaking to read such a thing. or from a man who had to bring all the burned people had to dig up and burn again. i can't imagen how they must have felt.

After i saw the Barracks i saw the punshment Barracks where you where put if you did the wrong thing or a 
Resistance warrior. the chambers where smal and some had dark rooms where people where put on there own chaned down to the floor. in some chambers there where plates where a country was on and was explained who was there and what happend to them. like some where tortured and some killed and more awful things. two parts where destroyed of the building but one part was still standing and i have seen that. 

after that we went to the otherside of the Camp where there where memorials for all the countries that people had here. i saw there where little stones on the memorials and apperaintly that is a jewish tradition so from respect i layed two stones. one on the memorial for my country and one on the mass graves. 

after i read all the signs for each country and saw the mass graves, i went to a little house. in that house they kept all the dead body's and some doctors experimented on those body's and that is sick. i saw the chambers underground where they stored them. they where old rooms with old white tiles and low to the ground there where taps so they could get rid of the blood (probebly) after i saw the chambers and the rooms above i had to get out. i couldn't take it anymore and even now it's bothering me. when i was out the camp  sat down underneath a roof and cried. some tears fel down my cheeks and that doesn't happen often. 

I can't believe such horrible things can happen to people and i always have heard stories and seen stuf about those kind of Camps but now i walked trough one where real people died or where executed. where real people where hold captive and where scared. the feeling that i had there i can feel it right now. for my life it is was a really inportant part of history and we need to see what happend so it will not happen that way again. 

thank you for reading this if you did. i hope i could tell you somthing you where intressted in. this was life changing for me and with sharing this with you i hope i changed a little part of your life as well. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj9oFQNAdeQ


Comments

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.

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.

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)

yah history of humans is pretty harsh.
i am glad you understand what the feeling is. it's not somthing usual you have on a daily basses.
and thank you i thought it would be honorable to do one of the traditions.
and i hope you one day can do it as well.

I can imagen how it must have felt when you went there. probebly the same thing i felt in the camp.
and that behavior isn't okay if you go there for the first time as an adult. kids you can forgive because they don't understand yet and you can only explain it to them and hope they understand.

and words are very powerful if you read the right thing. especially with memorials like that. and i know you think about him (your dad) that way, i do the same with people i lost. and i think it's good that you realized what happend there. so it's okay you cried. nothing to be ashamed about.

Ow, I can imagine how hard it must 've been to be in those places :(

This part of history has been so terrible, and being there, knowing all that happened, can make anyone feel very sad and powerless, but the one thing we can all learn, is just as you say, remember the mistakes that happened, so they never happen again.

I understand about the vibe that some places give, sometimes you can feel uncomfortable just by being in a place and feel all that happened even if it's been a long time.

your writing is so powerful that it made me feel i was there too, and i'm thankful that you shared your experience with us, although it's a sad moment, it's a helpful one so we always remember to grow as people, humans, and become better than our past events :)

Yah i'm glad you understand the point i made somthing like that should never happen again.

and for the feeling it was terrible after we got back i still have trouble walking around and thinking about it. it really took a tole on me and i needed time to recover and gain energy again because this was not ok.

thanks i tried to bring everything over the best i could and that i did that for you makes me happy to hear that even though like you said it's a sad moment i could bring over the things i felt and have seen. i'm glad this could mean somthing to someone ^_^