Auschwitz Birkenau

Source: I Survived 20th Century Holocaust

The facility itself was huge but all of the camps put together were just astonishing. This picture reminds me of Ellie Wiseal's "Night" in many ways but mostly the way he talked about how large it was. It just shocks you at how vast and large this place was and no one knew what was going on inside of it. In the book Night, he talks about how it took them four hours to get to a different part of the camp. This place had to be absolutely huge. This picture is only of the Birkenau camp in Auschwitz, and yet look how large it looks. It still amazes me that they had camps running of this size and proportion and no one says that they were aware of the killings taking place at the time. The view of the camp almost reminds me of a prison, but it is almost as if Jews were imprisoned to a point.