{"id":10777,"date":"2014-03-10T12:58:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=10777"},"modified":"2014-08-08T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T20:38:11","slug":"nerves-emotions-disbelief-auschwitz-birkenau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/nerves-emotions-disbelief-auschwitz-birkenau\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerves, emotions and disbelief at Auschwitz-Birkenau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Caitlin Peabody<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We left the hotel around 9:30 this morning and boarded a bus for the hour long ride to Auschwitz. Tomasz joined us in the morning and spent the day with us, sharing his knowledge and his insights of the camp. Upon arrival, I was nervous. As I was growing up and I became more and more interested in Holocaust\/WWII studies, all I wanted to do was visit Auschwitz. It was finally actually happening and I had no idea what to think. We spent the morning at Auschwitz I, spending time at each of the exhibits. Each of the barracks had a different exhibit in it; we only visited a few because most of them were given to the different states that were affected by the war to place their own sort of museum in them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Tomasz-showing-us-the-towns-that-fed-into-Auschwitz-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"969\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"10785\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/eerie-humbling-experience-auschwitz-birkenau\/tomasz-showing-us-the-towns-that-fed-into-auschwitz-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Tomasz-showing-us-the-towns-that-fed-into-Auschwitz-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1211,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tomasz-showing-us-the-towns-that-fed-into-Auschwitz-(2)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The tour guide for the UTC group, Tomasz, shows a diagram of the towns where prisoners lived before they came to Auschwitz.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Tomasz-showing-us-the-towns-that-fed-into-Auschwitz-2-969x1024.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10785\" alt=\"The tour guide for the UTC group, Tomasz, shows a diagram of the towns where prisoners lived before they came to Auschwitz.\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Tomasz-showing-us-the-towns-that-fed-into-Auschwitz-2-969x1024.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Tomasz-showing-us-the-towns-that-fed-into-Auschwitz-2-969x1024.jpg 969w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Tomasz-showing-us-the-towns-that-fed-into-Auschwitz-2-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Tomasz-showing-us-the-towns-that-fed-into-Auschwitz-2-610x644.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Tomasz-showing-us-the-towns-that-fed-into-Auschwitz-2-189x200.jpg 189w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Tomasz-showing-us-the-towns-that-fed-into-Auschwitz-2-378x400.jpg 378w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Tomasz-showing-us-the-towns-that-fed-into-Auschwitz-2.jpg 1211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 969px) 100vw, 969px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tour guide for the UTC group, Tomasz, shows a diagram of the towns where prisoners lived before they came to Auschwitz.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While some of the exhibits were about Auschwitz I, the majority of the ones we visited were about Auschwitz II or better known as Birkenau. Although Birkenau is a sub-camp of Auschwitz I, it is completely left alone in regards to turning it into a museum with exhibits. While visiting the exhibits about Birkenau, everything began to hit me hard. We visited one room that displayed the human hair shaved off of the prisoners that was recovered from Birkenau when the camp was liberated. As Tomasz was explaining and just talking about the shear humiliation I became so angry. I couldn\u2019t believe that a human being could do this to another human being. How could they? How was it even possible for someone to have the capacity to violently cut off someone\u2019s hair, their identity? All these things were rushing into my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to end here for the day and talk about my experiences at Birkenau in my post tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/image-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"10783\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/eerie-humbling-experience-auschwitz-birkenau\/image-9\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/image-9.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"960,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image (9)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/image-9-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10783\" alt=\"image (9)\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/image-9-768x1024.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/image-9-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/image-9-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/image-9-610x813.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/image-9-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/image-9-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/image-9.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Caitlin Peabody We left the hotel around 9:30 this morning and boarded a bus for the hour long ride to Auschwitz. Tomasz joined us in the morning and spent the day with us, sharing his knowledge and his insights of the camp. Upon arrival, I was nervous. As I was growing up and I&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/nerves-emotions-disbelief-auschwitz-birkenau\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12704],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-holocaust-study-tour","7":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nerves, emotions and disbelief at Auschwitz-Birkenau | UTC News Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Caitlin Peabody We left the hotel around 9:30 this morning and boarded a bus for the hour long ride to Auschwitz. 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