On January 27, 1945, the Nazi concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, took place.

I well remember the terrible and sad memory of my 2016 visit to the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration and Extermination Camp in Poland.

Right at the entrance, we are faced with that classic view of the metal gate, on which there is the inscription “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work sets free”). The most ironic phrase the world knows.

The morning was still cold, gray and slightly foggy, helping to create an even denser, dreary atmosphere. I still remember the chills I felt going through that place of death.

The place still smells of death and extermination, it's not good to feel, but everyone should visit and feel the horrors lived there, so that such atrocity can never be repeated anywhere in the world.

Block 4 and 5 were, I think, the most shocking. Block 4 deals with the process of exterminating the prisoners, which in itself is already quite heavy. There are (rare) photos of the victims, a model of the freight car of the train that was transporting people there (in deplorable conditions) and a huge scale model of a gas chamber and crematorium.

There is also an urn with human ashes collected near the crematoria, as well as numerous cans of Zyklon B, the pesticide used to generate the lethal gas.

Block 5 wasn't much smoother than the previous one. There, there were shoes (LOTS of shoes), suitcases (with family names written on them…), hairbrushes, shaving brushes, glasses, cans with shoe polish, dishes, pots, basins, teapots, tallit (Jewish shawl for prayer), children's clothing, orthopedic prostheses and crutches (people with physical disabilities were taken directly to the gas chamber), and other items for domestic and personal use.

Anyway….

What can be asked, more than 75 years after that madness to death, is whether it is still possible to continue to believe in man and in the values ​​of civilization!

(Gas chamber – Auschwitz)

There is no other place on Earth where more Jews, Poles and Gypsies have died as a result of criminal methods in such a short time and in such a limited space. The grounds of the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps constitute the largest cemetery in the world in a place of genocide.

The purpose of this day is not to let the deliberate mass murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators fall by the wayside. This constitutes one of the greatest crimes against humanity in memory. On the other hand,