Over my Muss experience I was given the chance to take a trip, not only to the state of Israel, but for a week, to Poland. When in poland, [T1] we came face to face [T2] with the realities of life and death and what our people had gone through, lived through and survived through during world war two. During our first day there, we went and visited a site where thousands of people had been murdered, and where we first spotted the horror. What really surprised us though was that there were towns and cities surrounding the camps and sites. The grey [T3] camps lying right next to these towns were almost invisible to them. It was not only a saddening sight to see where so many were killed but also because of the lives and dreams lost with them. W[T4] hen we walked around …show more content…
We saw items that during the war, were stolen from jews [T7] and still sold today. All of a sudden, all the items being examined by us, the buyers, were quickly put down and it was as if right before our eyes, the gold items which we so dearly adored turned gray and disappeared[T8] . All we could do now is stare at these people, sometimes we stared so much we could see into their corrupt souls. As a group we walked away, unable to truly comprehend what we had just seen but knew it would only become worse. We had seen the horrors of towns and heard about the camps but until now, no one could have ever guessed it would be this horrific. As we walked around one camp. T[T9] he ground was flat, as most of building had decomposed. However[T10] some pieces of buildings remained such as the red infused chimneys. They were the only things left and we knew what they had once held and that made us tear. This had scared us for life, something we will hopefully never forget and live long and tell our children about. Upon leaving, we left in the white [T11] plane,we were filled with sorrow yes, but also a bit of