[travel] Holocaust

[mattbell]

I'm going to Auschwitz tomorrow. Every European city I've been to so fat has a big emptied-out Jewish quarter. It's starting to give me a sense for the scale of the Holocaust. Sure you can use metaphors like "Imagine killing off every resident of the San Francisco Bay Area" but most people can't really process what that really means until they see firsthand evidence. As Stalin (who killed even more civilians than Hitler) said, "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."