KZ Mauthausen

Two of my Irish class mates and myself made the short journey the Mauthausen memorial on Thursday. If you have visited one of these camps then you know that it is very difficult to describe how it felt especially when you realise these inhuman places shut less than seventy years ago. I’m unsure as to whether I would go so far to say that I would recommend visiting a concentration camp but personally I thought it was very important to gain a balanced view on the history of the place I was living in and that since history is prone to repetition we must always remember these horrendous events so that they never happen again to any group.

Mauthausen, a set on Flickr.