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Uploaded: 02/22/08 7:23 AM GMT
Remembrance
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These are the railroad tracks in the center of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. The flowers were a tangible sign that the lives taken at Birkenau have not been forgotten.

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.TheWhisperer
02/22/08 9:19 AM GMT
And nor should they be forgotten! This is a very thought provoking capture with a very interesting angle, with the train track leading the eye to that awful place. You have captured this very well indeed!
Ann
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::m0rnstar
02/22/08 1:49 PM GMT
Well, I am struck speechless. What a powerful image and story you have here. Along with NL's tribute, the two of these posts together are just heart wrenching. What a wonderful capture....

~*Mary*~

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::rp64
02/22/08 8:51 PM GMT
I looked long and hard at this image when I came across it in the voting booth. I had a feeling I knew what it was before I read the narrative because it reminded me of another post from a good friend of mine on the same topic. This is not only a well composed and focused picture, but a well deserved rememberance of tribute. Thank you for sharing it.

Rich
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"'Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "WOW! What a ride!"'
::0930_23
02/22/08 11:11 PM GMT
I'm like Rich. I had it in VB (gave it high marks) and thought it was pretty much like I thought it would be. That view down the tracks to the end of the line says so much. Most of it is terribly sad. Good work here. We should never forget.

Tick
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I'll meet you at the edge of the sunlight, just behind the shadows. The Ghost
.NL
03/06/08 2:44 AM GMT
Well, if this hell on earth would be forgotten, then i fear the most for the human kind.
A very good shot of the end of the railway, the main entrance in the distance, and the selection ramps besides it. Very good posting.
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vnvet68
03/06/08 10:53 PM GMT
i've seen alot of photographs of the railroad approach to the camp- but this...this speaks more than all of them put together.
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.Catharina1
01/29/10 5:10 PM GMT
This place, this photo.. very good post! Compliment how you took this photo from this postion. We cannot forget this. Thanks for this photo, Mich
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