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August 31, 2005
Weird encounter
KL Auschwitz I (Photo: RV)Being in the neighborhood after Ostrava, my significant other and I traveled to the Polish town Krakow and visited the Museum Auschwitz. While we were down in the basement of Block 11 (the death block) I ran into some other Ostrava composers and musicians, like Todd and Kate. It was the most bizarre place to meet acquaintances I have ever experienced.
Feet away from the "standing-cells", the first "trial and error" gas-chamber, torture rooms and the wall of death in Block 11 we ran into each other and said hastily our hellos. Then we shut up until we were outside again.
It is shocking to see how small this Auschwitz I camp actually is. It is also shocking to see all those buildings, where so many people suffered in a terrible way, with our own eyes.
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