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Message: [QUOTE="cohenzone, post: 3626900, member: 504"] It’s hard for Poland natives to visit. I give her a lot of credit. And Poland’s current government is anti-Semitic. Ray Allen famously went out of his way to visit Auschwitz a few years ago. A few people have asked me why would a Jew want to visit there. I’m, not religious, but I answer, if I’m going to be in Poland, how could I not. The victims need to be honored. We had a a moving experience at Birkenau. The railroad track that would remind most people of Nazi movies goes straight up the middle of the mostly dismantled big site. At the very far end is a memorial nesr where the ruined gas chambers and crematorium stood, destroyed by the Nazis when they knew the Russians were soon to overrun them. As we approached, we heard singing. It was a group of Israeli school kids all dressed up singing the Jewish mourners prayer. Goose bumps. It’s likely most of those kids were descendants of Holocaust survivors. [/QUOTE]