Yesterday I went to Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum- the concentration camp where Section Z and the death march took place. The memorial aspects were very poignant, they had put stone boxes to represent the barracks where the prisoners were kept, and the memorial section with new trees growing in it seemed hopeful. However the other aspects were horrible, I refused to go into the original prison wing which was intact because the place gave me the shudders. The concentration camp area itself was barren with no trees and was enormous. The horrors and the detail of the exhibits really drove home the genocide practised there.

I have not been able to write for the last 24 hours because I’ve been feeling overwhelmed. But I will write and speak out about injustice and oppression because otherwise we are bound to let this occur again- and in some places of the world we already are.