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Westerbork Monument (a part of).Each block represents a person deported from this camp to the concentration camps during WW II. For instance, Anne Frank was deported from here to Auswitz.
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The blocks remind me of the luggage, the suitcases that were left behind by the many Jewish people. They took what they could with them, but in the end had to give it all up.
Like their old lives left behind...
Very powerful image. Thank you for sharing.
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And you thanks for your 
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We can never right the wrongs that have been committed, just pray they never happen again. Mike.
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True & Wise Words, Mike.
Let's hope many people read them
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i had no idea that Anne Frank went to Auswitz. This is a sad picture...
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It is indeed a place which you visit mostly in silence.
Yeah, Anne was transported and in the end died of typhus in Bergen-Belzen, somewhere in March 1945.
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It's called Camp Westerbork and it's located in the vicinity of a village called Westerbork in Drenthe, a province of The Netherlands. But actually the camp is in the middle of some woods, away from any populated places. As you can imagine, the Germans tried to keep such activities hidding from the general public.
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of course! i was wondering why i had never seen anything like this.. its a pretty grim sight, but still beautiful somehow. so much is hidden from plain view...
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Yeah, and actually it's only just a small part of the monument and the former camp itself.
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Cool...the contrast between black and white help the emotion of this picture...I'll add this one...
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great shot, very expressive. you were right about the effect that the b/w adds to it. very good job
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Yeah, it is. The blocks are actually red with a silver star on them but the B/W has a stonger effect, I think.
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