Thanks for putting this out again. I missed it before. I cannot fathom the emotional end of being there in person. I visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC a few years back, and it deeply affected me for days. Can't imagine actually being in Auschwitz/Birkenau in person. You did an incredibly strong post on showing and describing the experience. I thought your poem was extremely hard hitting, and very emotional to read, beyond well written.
So important for these horrors to stay on the forefront of everyone's mind into the future. It is so easy for humans to slip back into treating one another in unfathomable, horrendous ways, though few could compare to these times of history. And as the DC memorial emphasizes, it is not only in history, but ongoing on many scales/locales today. I'm sure this was a bit hard to write, think you mentioned that, so thanks for that.

Well, on to a happier note, hope your New Year is going well, and is a grand one. Cheers on a Sunday in January