Saddest Place You Have Visited?

[Gregory2Smith1]

with the exception of selhurst park

if your travelling through france this summer,this place,Oradour-sur-Glane is worth a visit,not far from limoges,it can be missed easily,look out for the brown places of interest signs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElKbQhs0pO8&feature=related

 

[moggy]

Croydon! Oradour is sombre memorial left the way it was after the Germans killed the entire village.
We discussed this a few years back if I remember correctly

 

[Horsham Gull]

Ypres - seeing all the memorials to fallen soldiers is moving

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Aberfan.

 

[moggy]

Auschwitz for me then teresienstadt

 

[lighthouse]

Aberfan.

ditto

I thought sitting in the Leppings Lane End at Hillsborough might feel uncomfortable, but perhaps as it is now all seats it was hard to get any impression of what happened there.

 

[User removed 4]

Kanchanaburi commonwealth war cemetery, where POW's from the death railray are buried, thailand.

 

[piersa]

Does not come close to anything to do with war but Medan in Indonesia is very sad.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

ditto

I thought sitting in the Leppings Lane End at Hillsborough might feel uncomfortable, but perhaps as it is now all seats it was hard to get any impression of what happened there.

I didn't like walking through the tunnel to the seats in the lower tier. I was more comfortable when we were in the upper tier.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Place - Stutthof - the first Nazi concentration camp built outside of Germany

Thing - A collection of eulogies from the victims of the 7/7 bombing - possibly still on display in the Museum of London in Barbican. Very moving, very moving indeed.

 

[Storer 68]

Not really absolute saddest but for some............................ The Goldstone Retail Park

 

[StonehamPark]

Croydon. Honestly not even a tiny bit because it houses CP, it's simply just dire. Driving through it takes all happiness out of me...

 

[somerset]

Ypres - seeing all the memorials to fallen soldiers is moving

Yep, Tynecot cemetery was really moving,..... an 'ocean' of headstones.

 

[StonehamPark]

Kanchanaburi commonwealth war cemetery, where POW's from the death railray are buried, thailand.

That's a good shout, been there a couple of times however I'd personally say the villages around Cu Chi outside of Ho Chi Minh. Still haven't filled in the bomb craters or rebuilt the schools and houses. Very sad.

 

[JOLovegrove]

I love the way we can't have a thread on here without Croydon/Palace being mentioned!

For me has to be Auschwitz. Walking through the gates eerie and was a shame just how touristy it has become. A place I would never want to re visit, especially the gas chambers which words can not sum up how it feels in there.

 

[00snook]

The memorial to the fallen in Berlin really got to me.

 

[Racek]

Auschwitz but I have been to that place in France too.

 

[Binney on acid]

Montecassino.

 

[Smithy]

Auschwitz for me too.

 

[Lethargic]

Bergen Belsen in Germany.