Dachau

Being at Dachau felt, to me, surreal. While we were both upset to be there -- inside a concentration camp, inside "bunkers" and replicas of the buildings where prisoners "lived", walking along the "street" where some interactions between prisoners were allowed -- I found being in the bunker -- a building that was a prison within the prison, really-- to be the most upsetting. I didn't realize for a while that I had tears running down my face. That said, I didn't find the "museum" exhibitions at the camp as upsetting -- or as informative -- as exhibitions I've seen elsewhere and in the states, including the Holocaust Museums in New York and DC. It was hard to be there, but I am glad that we went.