Auschwitz!!!

so the wife and i went to Auschwitz this past three days; and let me just say WOW!!! i have and never see or do i want to see something like that again. well i hope i never have to. we started out walking through the gates (what a sobering moment) and immediately we were walking through the "Blocks." we made our way to block 4 where the memorial fokes put up for display several disturbing things. walking through the door was crazy enough, but when we went into the room where they laid out 2000kg of human female hair was mind blowing. the hair came from all woman that was shipped there. talk about making my stomach turn. we went on to see thousands of pairs of shoes, glasses, toothbrushes, and clothes. these are just a few items that they displayed to keep the memory of those who were there alive. just when we thought that we had seen it all they told us that they would now take us to Auschwitz 2. i couldn't believe it! there was more! as if one of these horrifying wasn't bad enough. so we got on a bus and head down the street to Auschwitz 2. this one was (and i am not joking) 10 times bigger. Auschwitz 2 is the one that is mostly shown on TV and stuff. its the one with the train that goes right through the doors. they said that it could (and did) hold hundreds of thousands of people. it's almost safe to say that as far as the eye can see that is how far the camp, barracks, and crematoriums go. among holding that many people they killed just as much. at this Camp they had 5 crematoriums to aid in the disposing of all those innocent people. if that's not enough to make you shake your head in sadness they said that at the crematoriums where they dumped the ashes looked beautiful. that there were flowers that flourished from the soil being so fertile with ashes. how messed up is that. in a place of death, beauty springs up..... the whole time we are walking and hearing how they did the selection of who would live and who would die, i could not stop thinking about my family. if my wife and i were taken up and shipped to that place there is no way that she (being pregnant) would have been selected to live. and if she by some chance had been allowed to live she would have wished she was dead. from what they told us she and the baby would have been subject to God knows what kind of torture; leading to death. there is no way i would want my family to have to go through that. so here i can count my blessings. i am very thankful that God has sparred us from having to live in that time.... but in my personal opinion our time as Christians living in peace is on a short time line. let us be thankful that our Heavenly Father has been so gracious to us.....