Stepping into the dreary gates of Auschwitz makes one relive humanity at its worst in modern history.

Hair from human remains is encased in a room, kept by the SS camp to make mattresses. Thousands of leftover shoes and other belongings from over a million untold stories, lives, families who died or were sent there.

It’s inevitable to resist the reality that Auschwitz was a hub for human slaughter.

Forced concentration workers lived in what resembled a barn house. The smell of rotting human bodies still reeks in that place as if it’s stained into the ground below it.

A large gas chamber burnt to the ground, on purpose, to hide the mass genocide taking place at Auschwitz.

No heaters, no air conditioning exist for those trapped behind barbed wire, shot on-site if they dared to escape.

The Auschwitz winters were harsh, but the force and treatment harsher. Medical rooms with cold mental tables, used for human experiments, as the SS probed at flesh, minds, and humanity as if the prisoners were lab rats. Increasing the fear and torture remained the SS’s main goal. Creating dissonance, all who entered were the SS’s enemy. The enemy of human beings who lived, worshipped, or thought differently than what the government ordained.

Therefore, Auschwitz held back no mercy. It served a villainous purpose. And now it’s a memory of how people were led to the slaughter. Because many didn’t know where they were going; they were just told to board the trains.