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[justabob]

I just don't think it is quite the same.

Slightly ot, but part of why I feel the way I do.... Our local Holocaust museum has one of the transport boxcars and it served as the entrance to the museum. You had to walk throuh the car to get inside the museum. I don't think I have ever been so emotionally affected by any exhibit anywhere as I was by those few moments inside that boxcar. When the museum moved they stopped using the car in the same way and I think that was a mistake. No new visitors will have that same expereince of being completely srrounded in that small space.... even with just 5 or so people it was claustrophobic, to imagine 100 people wall to wall in bitter cold made me sob. I can't imagine you get the same feeling just peering in the door, or looking at a boxcar from a distance.

Even though the camp is a much nicer place now than it was, and much of the horror has been scrubbed from it (like the feces, blood and human decomp from the boxcar)you cannot get the same experience looking at photos. IMHO