Auschwitz

Today we went to Auschwitz.  I am not sure what there is to say.  Everybody presumably experiences different emotions; interest, incredulity, despair, guilt, need for a catharsis. The camps were inundated with hundreds upon hundreds of tourists during our visit (which, of course, is exactly what we were) but, ironically, that seemed to dilute the solemnity of the place. Shuffling through the various buildings in a never-ending snake of people and gazing at the sad displays as we shuffled, somehow did not have the effect it should have. I was, perhaps, more in awe of the tragedy as presented by the Holocaust museum.