Dachau

Thursday, April 1 – Back on the bus, this time headed to Dachau – the first Nazi concentration camp to open. Even though I’ve been there already, I was still taken aback by it. We had audio guides, so we could hear interesting facts or stories or hear testimonies from survivors – very heart wrenching. I went through the museum, barrack, Jewish memorial, and crematories. One of the most eerie things is to be in a room and realize that that was where they slept or ate or, by far the most frightening was being in the room where they piled the bodies before they were burned and then in cremation room. I also saw the wooden shoes they wore and the faded blue stripped uniforms. It was very stunning.