| I envy all of you who've had the opportunity to visit Auschwitz, Dachau and Belsen. I doubt I'll ever get the chance myself. Perhaps it's for the best. I'm a sensitive sort and I have little doubt that I would cry like a baby and become very depressed.
A too the Poles attitude, I agree with the proximity concept (many native New Yorkers have never been in the Statue or the top of Empire Bldg.
However I also think it is natural to avoid the associations to such horrific memories right in your front yard. As to the lack of birds. Far more perception then an actual phoenomen. Birds, especially crows do not avoid death. Much like the whole myth about the full moon.
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