Overwhelming and Emotional
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (80870)
United States
December 9, 2025 9:40pm CST
Today my niece and I took a trip to the Cincinnati Museum, where one of the museums in the complex (the old Union Station terminal) currently has an exhibit of the history of Auschwitz. The exhibit includes over 900 items from the most notorious death camp.
Not replicas. Not recreations. The real things.
The photo that I chose to use is this one, an actual shower head used to pump poison gas into the showers and kill the prisoners.
We were there for over three hours, walking around in stunned silence. When we left (after a three-minute concluding film called “What We Lost,” showing families [Jews and Christians, as well as Roma camps] that were eliminated, along with all they could have given the world) we hugged each other. It was that overwhelming and emotional.
I’m glad she went with me. We’re both history buffs. More importantly, that’s not something that should be experienced alone.
Despite all the Holocaust deniers in the world, it’s something I pray we never have to experience again.
The photo is one of the shower heads used at Auschwitz in 1943.
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@FourWalls (80870)
• United States
10 Dec
There are two places I don’t think I could go. Auschwitz is one. The other I know I couldn’t go to, because I was stationed right across the street from the parking lot: the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.
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@Deepizzaguy (116530)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
10 Dec
You are right that what happened in the Holocaust never happens again,
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@Deepizzaguy (116530)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
10 Dec
@FourWalls You are right.
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@snowy22315 (199849)
• United States
10 Dec
I have been to the Holocaust museums both in DC and Richmond. They are noving. The one is Richmond has a huge collection of shoes discarded by those who were gassed.
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@snowy22315 (199849)
• United States
10 Dec
@FourWalls Stupid isn't a big enough word..evil,cruel, heinous senseless,insane, morally bankrupt..are a few things that come to mind..who does that remind you of?
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@FourWalls (80870)
• United States
10 Dec
@snowy22315 — oh, I don’t know…someone who wants to ban Muslims in a country with a constitutionally-guaranteed right of freedom of religion? 
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@FourWalls (80870)
• United States
10 Dec
They had a couple of shoes highlighted in the exhibit. It’s unreal to look at a shoe that is still here while the person wearing it was killed five minutes after taking it off. And for what? Being Jewish? Roma? A Catholic or a Jehovah’s Witness? Stupid.
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@LeaPea2417 (39147)
• Toccoa, Georgia
21h
I didn't realize there is a Holocaust Museum in the United States.
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@FourWalls (80870)
• United States
19h
There are many Holocaust museums in the United States. The main one is in Washington DC. The one in Dallas that I went to was focused on Holocaust survivors who had moved to the Dallas area after WWII. This one featured many Cincinnati area survivors at the end (the picture that froze me was a group of survivors having a reunion at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in 1955…that venue later was destroyed in a horrific and suspicious fire in 1977).
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@FourWalls (80870)
• United States
10 Dec
There’s still “ethnic cleansing” going on in wars in tiny corners of the world we’ve never heard of. 
As the Bible says, “Man’s heart is on evil continually from his youth” (Genesis 8:21).
As the Bible says, “Man’s heart is on evil continually from his youth” (Genesis 8:21). 1 person likes this
@FourWalls (80870)
• United States
19h
@wolfgirl569 — I know. I heard a lot of modern far-right wing rhetoric in the quotes from the 1930s German leaders…sadly. 
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@wolfgirl569 (126215)
• Marion, Ohio
20h
@FourWalls I won't even say just those tiny corners. I hate what is going on here with ice
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@just4him (319340)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Dec
I'm glad you had the opportunity to visit the museum. It's one I wouldn't mind seeing, and as you said, not alone. I'm certain the emotions were overwhelming.
When I first heard about people who denied it took place, it shocked me.
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@FourWalls (80870)
• United States
10 Dec
We have video footage, we have eyewitnesses, we have forensic evidence, we have confessions from the participants…and still people say it didn’t happen. 
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@just4him (319340)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Dec
@FourWalls They're the same ones who believe the conspiracy theories.
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@FourWalls (80870)
• United States
10 Dec
The sad thing is that we have people in this country who DO want it to happen again.
@Tampa_girl7 (53935)
• United States
10 Dec
When I lived in Germany my high school history teacher took us to Dachau Concentration Camp. What I felt while there is indescribable. The shear horror and evil that took place there still lingered.
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@FourWalls (80870)
• United States
10 Dec
I cannot imagine. Just going through the Holocaust museums (this was my second one, after the one in Dallas) and displays (they had a display in the World War II part of the Air Force Museum in Dayton) have been overwhelming. To actually be where the gates of hell were open against humanity?
@RasmaSandra (91680)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
21h
wow As interested as I am in history, that museum would give me the heebie jeebies.
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@LindaOHio (207968)
• United States
10 Dec
We all hope and pray that something like this never happens again.
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@FourWalls (80870)
• United States
10 Dec
Oh, but we know it will. That’s just humanity’s inclination: to hate people they don’t know for a fabricated reason.
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@MarieCoyle (52060)
•
10 Dec
No, it isn't something to be experienced alone, you are right. The horrors of the holocaust shake me to my core. No one ever, ever wants to hear that anything like this ever happened, let alone for it to ever be repeated.
What we lost...indeed, what we lost. Heartbreaking.
Have a safe trip, and make some good memories with your niece! 
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@FourWalls (80870)
• United States
10 Dec
It was a “quickie,” due to the weather inconsistency and unpredictability here. Rain today, sn*w tomorrow? A warm-up on Saturday and a low in the single digits on Sunday? I think I’m just going to swing by my doctor’s office, pick her up, and say, “You can see me for my appointment on the beach in Tampa.” 
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@MarieCoyle (52060)
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15h
@FourWalls
Yes, we are definitely in for some days of wild winds, snow, ice, and cold here as well. I plan on staying inside as much as we possibly can!
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