Where have you been?

Umschlagplatz was a Nazi staging area for the transportation of Jews to extermination camps.


The site itself is not so impressive but as you sit in the square and see the surrounding neighborhood the grotesqueness of what happened there come through very clearly. In the middle of a peaceful city its citizens were gathered up and shipped off for extermination. Simple. Just like that.

I just found the Wikipedia has a nice summary of Jews in Poland if any of you are interested in reading more.