Saddest Place You Have Visited?

[brighton_girl87]

The American cemetery and museum in Normandy for me.

 

[tubaman]

Auschwitz for me too.

And me. I found it difficult to comprehend how so many people could have been murdered in such a relatively small building.

 

[Oscar]

Margate.

 

[severnside gull]

New York's 9/11 Memorial - North Pool section 46 - Robert Douglas Eaton.
Driving back to JFK last week through Queens caught a glimpse of blue & white stripes among some kids playing soccer in a city park - don't know if they were Albion shirts but I'd like to think so

 

[portslade seagull]

Auschwitz for me as well....closely followed by vimy ridge and most other ww1 cemetarys because of the low average age of the fallen

 

[mune ni kamome]

Newhaven

 

[severnside gull]

Newhaven

you have a point

 

[Laughing Gravy]

I went to Oradour in 2008 with the wife and it was a very sad day, but well worth a visit if you ever find yourself in the Limoges area.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

My grandfather died in Auschwitz...


He fell out of his watchtower.

Boom-tish

 

[forrest]

I've not got round to visiting the main battlefields of France and Belgium yet. Only travelled through them. So the beach at Dieppe for me and what happened there to the combined British and Candian forces in their commando raid there.

Also several cities in Poland still have the scares of WW2 on the buildings in many of the towns and cities. Especially in Gdansk where there are many destroyed buildings on the outskirts of the city.

 

[Aseros]

Ypres by far. Walking around all the cemetarys and the trenches really brings home the reality of war.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Birkenhead. Thread. Closed.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

I've not got round to visiting the main battlefields of France and Belgium yet. Only travelled through them. So the beach at Dieppe for me and what happened there to the combined British and Candian forces in their commando raid there.

Also several cities in Poland still have the scares of WW2 on the buildings in many of the towns and cities. Especially in Gdansk where there are many destroyed buildings on the outskirts of the city.

i don't know if you visited the canadian cemetary in dieppe,it's immaculately kept,but surprisingly small,it's the ages on the tombstone's that really hit you,so young and probably they'ed never heard of dieppe before back in canada

i had a canadian grandfather that was killed in the 2nd world war,not at dieppe,but i'm very interested in canada's part in all of it

the cemetaries along the coast near the d-day beaches are overwhelming,impossible to imagine just what went on that day and the days that followed

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Burnley on a cold, wet and windy night did nothing to cheer me up.

 

[Gullys Cats]

Liverpool

 

[SeagullSongs]

Auschwitz for me too. Walking through the gas chamber and thinking that wherever I stepped, tens of thousands of people had died there.







Just a small selection of photos. I couldn't bring myself to take photos in some of the more harrowing places.

You know they say that in Auschwitz not even the birds sing? That's a lie, and it makes the place ten times more surreal.

 

[Steve Foster]

Yad Vashem - Jerusalem.

The Museum for the Righteous & Memorial to the Holocaust.

 

[Worthingite]

The YMCA Boys Town orphanages in Madras. It was heartbreaking. I went out to do some work with them 12 years ago, and spending 3 months out there with them made me really appreciate the smaller things in life. One thing that made me smile though, they're cricket crazy and a team of people from 18-40 ish got WHIPPED by a team of 7 and 8 year olds using a cricket ball like a bloody daisy cutter.

 

[clapham_gull]

Auschwitz.

I visited a few Poland towns cities under communism, Łódź was a bit of a shocker back then.

 

[Beach Hut]

Oradour was very moving, especially the cemetery where the French certainly do not mince their words on that they thought of the Nazis