Auschwitz I

This section details my personal tour experiences at the main Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland. Viewer discretion advised.

The camp initially housed transient workers during World War I and was later transformed into military barracks for the Polish Army. Beginning in 1940, Auschwitz served as the administrative headquarters for the camp. From 1940-1945, the Auschwitz complex grew to forty (40) camps used for military, racial, ethnic, religious, and political imprisonment, manufacturing, forced labor, torture, medical "research" and experimentation, extermination, and cremation.

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Make no mistake. Auschwitz was not a camp but a sophisticatedly engineered administrative center designed to deliver systematic suffering, torture and murder. The Nazis' focused on Europe's Jews, but other groups were also targeted: Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, Poles, Sinti and Roma gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and Christian clergy.

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The articles, images, and videos are mine (unless noted otherwise). I will take you on a step-by-step journey through Auschwitz. You will see what I saw. You will hear what I heard. In some videos, I provide real-time commentary. In each post, I try to coalesce the historical aspects of the time, the impact on humanity, lesser-known details, travel and tour information, and the very personal, emotional and spiritual impact I felt on each step and stop during my tour.

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