Sachsenhausen

Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp, not a death camp. However, it was the camp where the Nazis started experimenting to find the “most effective way to mass murder”. We went into ‘Station Z’. They told Jewish soviet prisoners of war that they were going in for a medical exam. One by one, they would enter the exam room, and they would be shot in the back of the head through a hole in the wall by a soldier on the other side. While we were in there a group of Israeli students were praying and crying in a circle. This made basically every member of my group lose it. It was an extremely powerful and moving experience and I good first step before we go to Auschwitz in Poland in a few weeks.