Death and Destruction

Broken spirits and burning buildings

The death march begins

Passed the point of no return

Never looking back

Trains filled to capacity

Auschwitz appears on the horizon 

Nearing the front gates

“Work will set you free”

The selection process begins

Worker, lab rat, or another pile of ashes 



Women children and men put to work

Enslaved by the Nazi regime

Agonizing pain and starvation   

The only two belongings these people know

Working themselves to death

Hoping for a break in the war

Looking for tomorrow

Nearing the end



Smoke and soot fill the air

The smell of burning bodies 

Piles of prisoners worldly possessions

Surrounded by death

Waiting for death to take you

Kneeling at the feet of the personification of death

It’s all over