Photohunt: Metal
The Europe Trip that I embarked on a few months ago, I must admit, was a very enlightening one for me. As someone who was raised in Asia, we did learn about the atrocities carried out by the Nazi and Japanese empire during the world war II, but somehow emphasis was put on the Asian side, and only this past year did I really understand the meaning of the Nazi Holocaust during the war.
This is the first of the two part series of pictures for this week's photohunt, titled metal. (Part 2 here)
This picture was taken in Auschwitz, Poland, where the Nazi German Concentration camp was built. This structure here can be found on a wall in which barbed wire surrounded.
As you can only imagine, barbed wire surrounded the whole concentration camp, locking people inside. Inside this camp hundreds to thousands of prisoners were kept at any one time. The worst thing was that there was an incinerator also in the premise, where prisoners are said to be whisked off to be killed.
Pictures like this should serve as a reminder of what mistakes people have done in the past, and what lesson we can take from it.
and indeed, may we learn from it...
(on a slighty similar note i saw the kilometer markers for the Death March here in the Philippines when we went to Bataan... it's simply chilling and humbling to realizehow hard it was for our ancestors)
Thank you
Mec: Glad that you learnt something from this. We should raise awareness towards pieces of history like this, even when they are sometimes hard to swallow, to better ourselves for the future.
ipanema, nina, mmehaydee: You're all welcomed!
annelie: Well, I think that fear is a good response. It then makes you think, and thinking and learning is what makes us better people.