final destination

Posted by DarkElf (Perth, Australia) on 14 June 2008 in Transportation.

These are the original train carriages in which Jews were transported to Nazi concentration camps all over Poland and Europe... this station was one of the main transportation centres where prisoners were sorted and redirected to various camps including Auschwitz... quite an eerie place...

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Comments (12)

saeed from ahwaz, Iran

great point of view! i like this shot! so nice !

14 Jun 2008 11:44am

dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, United States

eerie indeed... i enjoy the angle of this shot, gives more weight to the stones and pebbles.

14 Jun 2008 11:47am

bruno from les Ollières, France

Nice colors and angle of view for a heavy loaded historical location.Great witnesses.

14 Jun 2008 3:42pm

Stephen Phillips from San Francisco, United States

Thanks for sharing this sad and poignant place. Gives new meaning to 'train terminal'. We need these reminders.

14 Jun 2008 4:11pm

Kelela from Upland, United States

Smart angle of the shot that ties in to the history of what heavy-heartedness this place carries. Brilliant image.

14 Jun 2008 6:49pm

Roman from Thunder Bay, Canada

This place is near a large polish city called Lodz. Well, I am Polish and many years ago, as a teenager, I visited Auschwitz and the place made a huge impression on me. As Stephen said in earlier comment, we need these reminders....
Nicely done, thank you...

15 Jun 2008 11:56am

@Roman: yes we certainly do need them... I was born in Lodz but have been living in Australia for 17 years now.. i have visited Auschwitz as well and will post photos from there at some stage in the future... it is really beyond imagination what one human being can do to another...

Graham Russon from Cape Town, South Africa

The angle is great and adds the impact to a powerful shot. Good work.

15 Jun 2008 8:46pm

Zygene from morlaix, France

Une très belle photo émouvante et chargée d’histoire.

16 Jun 2008 4:05pm

Inki from Wellington, New Zealand

Powerful and emotionally heavy photo, leaves me lost for words.

16 Jun 2008 10:27pm

Michael Rawluk from Prince George, Canada

It is a beautiful shot that symbolizes the evil that men can do. The low angle adds to that feeling of evil.

16 Jun 2008 11:31pm

Jeffster from Long Island, United States

Thank you for the last 2 photos. Very good imagery. Imagine being one of the people getting off the train. It's unfortunate that history does repeat itself. My ancestry also goes back to Lodz. Fortunately, my family was here long before this nightmare began.

17 Jun 2008 2:05pm

Twelvebit from Victoria, United States

I recommend the documentary "Shoah." After the fact people like to pretend that these death trains were some kind of secret, but as Shoah makes clear, these trains were hard to miss, and many people actually taunted the Jews as they passed through the countryside. Now people want to pretend that everyone was against it, but at the time there were enough people actually reveling it what was happening that we should all wonder about the capacity for evil in every human being.

24 Jun 2008 4:18am

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