Poland (click here for the video)

It wasn´t a challenge as such in Poland, instead I was asked to visit and lay flowers at Auschwitz. Auschwitz is a place most of us are aware of, it was after all the scene of one of the most brutal and insane chapters in human history.

I decided to take a tour as I wanted a guide to give me more of an insight into the place, then perhaps I would have got visiting by myself. On the bus from Krakow to Auschwitz we were shown a disturbing 50min documentary that included original footage taken by Russian cameramen when the camp was finally liberated by the the Red army.

It´s very difficult to describe what happened to the victims in a few short paragraphs. So I would recommend anyone that has the chance to go there and see for themselves. It`s also worth looking into finding books on the subject. It shows how easily people can change into something, and do things they wouldn´t believe possible of themselves.

Even though this happened 60 or so years ago, that´s actually frighteningly recent. It shows that unless we ourselves guard against this kind of thing it could happen again. As it already has in Rwanda, East Timor and the old Yugoslavia and many other places besides.