TITLE: Never Again

I visited Dachau Concentration camp in Germany in the summer of 2018. This was my first visit to Germany and a concentration camp. Dachau is not just a historical site to visit, it is a graveyard. The wish of the surviving families was to have the site preserved as a mass gravesite for the thousands of people that died there. It is truly their resting place. Dachau is filled with memorials to the victims of atrocities that occurred on the soil of the camp. The horrors that happened behind the barbed wire fences are inconceivable. Dachau was the first concentration camp created in Nazi Germany. You knew once you arrived, you would never leave. The most poignant moment I had was visiting the gas chamber. There are two rooms on each side of the chamber called death rooms. These barren rooms were used to store the dead before being cremated in the ovens. As I stood in one room, trying to grasp the situation, the church bells tolled. I cried. Never have I been moved to tears at a historical site before. It was an experience I will never forget. The world must never forget. Never again.

AUTHOR: Charlotte Tweed (Canada)

I am a travel consultant, travel writer and photographer that graduated with honours from the Travel & Tourism diploma program at SAIT in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. My favourite subjects to capture are historical sites, architecture, landscapes and street photography. My goal is to inspire people to reinvent themselves through travel.