What is it like to visit a Nazi concentration camp?

How did I develop an interest in World War 2 history ? When people from India visit Europe, the places of interests usually include the touristy places. India as a country, had very minimal involvement in the World War 2. read more

The concentration camp was like a slow death and the gas chamber a quick one. The soldiers sent people into the big chamber, at least 2000 people at a time and sometimes even more children. The chamber was sealed shut and a pesticide called Zyklon B was unloaded in it. read more

A former guide writes about the frustrations of communicating the horrors of the Holocaust to travelers who want to pack Neuschwanstein and Dachau into a single day. read more

He proposed that they’d have “just one day of tears”: a visit to the city’s Old Jewish Cemetery and nearby Theresienstadt, the concentration camp famous for its poems written by children. His father was disappointed to miss the lesser-known Holocaust-related sites surrounding the city, but his mother seemed relieved. read more