Majdanek is not a word heard very often when discussing the Holocaust and camps. I did not learn about Majdanek until my teacher went on the trip and brought his story back. But, even though it is not talked about as much as Auschwitz or Treblinka, it still makes and made an intense impact. The camp is still almost exactly how it was in World War II, besides the minuscule means they had to do to preserve the camp. Walking through there is eerie, you know that the prisoners saw the exact same thing you see at that moment. That is the hardest thing to grasp, where you are walking is where they walked, what they saw, what they hear. Your mind thinks and imagines their perspective and it’s so easy to do because everything is in front of you. Majdanek is probably the most difficult thing I have witnessed in my life due to its realism.
Even though it was very hard for all of us to witness, it’s important to do so. It is so important to learn about history and the past and carry the stories, not to have history repeat itself, but to memorialize and never forget what people went through.
