A Cemetery with No Graves

These tracks carried over a million Jews to their death. They led to a cemetery with no graves: Auschwitz. Today marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Hundreds of thousands of Jews would be carried in by train car only to then be divided up into those who would work and those who would die.

The battle we now wage is one of remembrance. Let us not forget Hitler, let us not forget Birkenau, and let us not forget the million plus Jews and others who died in Nazi Death Camps.

Let me recommend three books which you should read to help remember Auschwitz. First, there is Elie Wiesel's personal account of his time in the death camps. This book is simply called Night. It is a harrowing and emotional tale of one young boy's life in Auschwitz. Secondly, there is The Origins of the Final Solution by Christopher R. Browning, which highlights the background and philosophical thinking behind the Holocaust. Lastly, there is an excellent work (although technical) called Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. This work is an edited collection of various articles which range in topic from broad overviews to detailed analysis of Josef Mengele's experiments on children. All are sobering works which help remind us of the horror of the Holocaust.