consider going to Auschwitz? For instance, if you were in Poland and you had the opportunity, would you go? They have tours, museums, ect.

Why not? I would. It would be a good learning experience.

we had a german teacher teach at our school 2 years ago, she said that she went on a school trip and the experience was numbing! apparently, there is still a huge pile of hair left there from when the jews had their heads shaved!

I would go if given the chance!

I dont know, to be honest. Its not like i dont want to know, its just that what i have seen and read is so sad.

I cant look upon these things and not think how it must have felt, how scared the children were, how much pain and agony people felt, how unfair it was. Its almost as if a tiny part of me loses faith in life itself.

Knowing my temperament i probably wouldn't go, it would take me many years to get to terms with it in my mind and i probably wouldn't get over it.

Its not a case of wanting to bury my head in the sand because i am all too aware of the things that happened there. Its just they affect me to the point of breaking my mental health.

First of all Auschwitz is in Poland. Two of my children went there on school trips and it really changed their outlook on life.

Sophie\'s Choice I never got over that. Today it still haunts me, even though i am glad to have had the experience of reading it, it disturbed me so badly.

I would go. I think that it's something everyone needs to see for themselves. The result of letting a ruthless madman and his cronies into power.

It is sad though. My flatmate went there on a school trip and when they came back they went to schools around Scotland to tell others about it. David Cameron called the enterprise "propaganda". She said that the trip happened so quickly that it didn't hit her until she got home. Then it all came on at once and she felt literally heart-broken.

My brother went there a couple of times he went to visit my father. I think I'd be setting myself up for a thoroughly depressing day, but I think it's something that is really important to be aware of.

I took a class in high school that concentrated on racism and genocides. We were lucky enough to have a few guest speakers, one former American liberator, one Holocaust survivor, and another survivor from the Rwandan genocide. Listening to their stories was such an awesome experience. Very sad, no doubt, but very different from reading about it in a history book. I'd imagine visiting a concentration camp would have a similar effect.