I did learn a little more about the Jewish quarters and the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, and how the Jews were housed before they were sent off to Concentration camps. I always had it in my mind that the Nazis just came and took the Jews directly out of their homes and sent them to concentration camps.
The thing that mean most to me was the trip to Auschwitz. I can barley even talk about now still. It is really hard for me to verbalize my feelings about this particular experience. It is something that I am very thankful that I got to see and experience, yet it is something that has hit me pretty hard. Being able to actually be where millions of lives that were destroyed and lost, was pretty hard. Especially being able to go into the gas chamber was probably the most chilling experience of my life. I am still having a hard time trying to wrap my head around the actual events and horrific actions that took place. Plus, geographically, the camps were bigger than I had imagined! This truly was the most meaningful part of the trip for me!
The value of traveling abroad is just being able to experience different ways of life! The culture, the people, the language, and of course the food! All of these things I believe can change people for the better. It makes some people realize that there is a bigger world out there than their own! Plus, for historic purposes, you can watch movies, read books, and learn about it in the class room, but there is nothing like actually being in the spots where major historic events have occurred!
