Thursday August 14, 2008

It was interesting and sobering to visit this place where many Resistance Fighters were imprisoned or murdered.

We could almost feel the gruesome history of this place as we walked through entrace gates and arches.

This urn contains ashes and soil from concentration camps.

It was difficult to keep our minds from thinking about the 2,891 people who were murdered in this room.

I am sure there were not flowers here when men and women were hung or decapitated for their resistance against the National Socialist Movement.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was held here for a time – but not murdered in this facility.

It is unbelievable that murder and torture was going on here when I was a little girl – feeling secure in the love of my family.