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My sister visited Bergen-Belson some years ago and told me that it was eirey quiet and she could not see or hear any birds.
I travelled on a coach trip to Germany in 2000 and the coach driver diverted to Bergen-Belsen. Although it was a poor day weather wise I saw and heard several birds, but was overcome when looking around the mounds and seeing the numbers of the dead per mound!
As I now live in Berlin I have travelled to Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, North of Berlin.
This was the first concentration camp set up by the NS system and it was easy for them to take anyone not to their persuasion from the streets in Berlin and detain relatively close by.
Having visited this place, where brutality of an unimaginable extreme was handed out daily to the inmates, I cannot understand people denying that this took place.
The Camp is now a Museum, dedicated to educating people of the horrors of the NS system of extermination camps.
There is also a very large room full of computers where anyone can study from a vast amount of documented evidence.
I found it to be a truly moving experience. I plan to take my daughters there next year, as reading books about the holocaust is just not the same as visiting these monuments to those killed by the system.
Tom
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