Nightmare diptych IV
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When the official tour of Auschwitz was over, the tour guide asked if any of us wanted to go up in the tower above the infamous gate of death, as that required permission of a tour guide. Naturally I said yes.
Up here, it was easier to see the scale of the camp. You can see the ramp where victims were unloaded from the trains on a side track, to be sent either to the gas chambers or to work.
You can see some tour groups clustered on the main walkway and the ramp.
A lof of the camp on the right was never completed, to my understanding, although several buildings on the left still stand.
The distance from my vantage point here to the trees at the end of the tracks is at least 1 kilometer. Width-wise, Auschwitz II-Birkenau is about 3km wide.
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The Auschwitz exhibit just opened at the ROM the other day. I plan to go to it, even though obviously I've seen the remains of Auschwitz in person.
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