@auschwitzmuseum visiting the camp museums in Oświęcim with a survivor, Noemi Ban, was easily among my top 5 'formative' experiences.

As an amputee, the display room full of crutches and prosthetics collected from early experimentation of mass killing methods on the invalid hit hard.

I stand against intolerance, bigotry and hate in all forms. RIP Noemi.

@auschwitzmuseum Two candles virtually placed here in loving memory of Eva Mozes Korr and her sister Miriam. Eva taught me so much in the short time I knew her and I am so lucky to have had the privilege of hearing her account first hand.

With deep respect and honor to the memory of all who were lost and those who survived h-ll on earth.

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@auschwitzmuseum while in Grad. school I spent a year studying Holocaust Lit. May I recommend a few memoirs?
#night Elie Wiesel
#Anundergroundlife Gad Beck
#FiveChimneys Olga Lengyel
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@auschwitzmuseum I trekked to Poland five years ago to pay my respects at the Auschwitz Memorial. It was a cold December day. There were no crowds. That aloneness made the experience very personal.

That year, I also visited memorials and documentation centers in Germany (Berlin and Munich), and the Czech Republic. I paused before the Stolpersteine markers, reading the names, the dates, the fates.

I have yet to make sense of my species occasional taste for brutal genocide.