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What have other Drake University students said after visiting Auschwitz?

 What have other Drake University students said after visiting Auschwitz?








Auschwitz Main Gate: "Arbeit Macht Frei" (work makes one free)



Birkenau: remaining chimneys beyond the barbed wire fence


Auschwitz





Auschwitz "Wall of Death" where prisoners were executed


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