Travel puts you in situations where you ask yourself: should places like this be visited? We believe the answer is yes . It is clearly not an “easy” or pleasant destination, but it is a necessary one, essential to understanding history so it is never repeated. This is one of those places we had seen countless times in history books, yet it remains almost impossible to imagine. You can read facts, hear testimonies, and look at photographs, but actually being there, standing in that space and grasping the sheer scale of what happened, is something entirely different. Auschwitz represents the peak of Polish collective memory. It’s also not for everyone. While planning our trip, we heard several people say, “I would never go there.” One of those comments even came from a German. For us, being so close, it felt important to go, to see it, and to experience firsthand what numbers, stories, and images alone can’t fully convey. A bit of context In September 1...