European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Ron Jensen Nurnberg Bureau the a outside the memorial that the Auschwitz concentration Camp has become says you Are entering a place of exceptional horror and  children under 13 Are not admitted. Beneath the Arbeit Macht Frei slogan welded into the Metal Gate Barbara Stojowski my guide said quietly this was the last place people had names. Inside they had  for three hours we walked along quiet cobbled streets and silent buildings that once housed the unfortunate. A Winter rain pelted the place. And the naked branches of Trees waved in the hard wind. Windows rattled. Visits to former concentration Camps or rather the memorials and museums these Camps have become Are by their nature gloomy. To walk voluntarily behind the Walls where so Many were unwillingly taken to die is to step into the sadness that still resides there nearly 50 years after the horror ended. Such places should be visited when the sky is dark and the wind is Strong and when rain batters the Earth. Sunshine and warmth would seem misleading. Untrue. The Camp at Auschwitz the German name for the polish City of Oswie Cim was intentionally brightened by the germans Stojowski said. From outside the Camp was very Nice with Flowers and Trees she said pointing to the Flower Beds sleeping through Winter. But inside. Well inside was a place of exceptional horror and tragedy. A Large Black and White photo greets visitors. It hangs on the outside Wall at the end of the first building inside Tine Gate. The Camp orchestra made up of prisoners is playing at the very spot where the photo is Hung. Each morning Stojowski explained the orchestra played As the prisoners marched off to work in the Fields or quarries. Each evening the orchestra played As the prisoners returned. Why we can t explain it she said there Are Many things we can t  Many things. Try to explain the Mound of hair turned Gray by the Gas and shaved from the corpses by other prisoners. The Gas Cyclone was used to kill insects before the War. Here at Auschwitz the Gas was carried to the Camp in red Cross ambulances and tested on human lab rats in the basement of the Block of  worked Well. The hair was bagged and sent to Germany to be Woven into uniforms and blankets. The red army discovered seven tons of it ready for shipment when the Camp was liberated. Explain the selection process How one German officer met new arrivals at the rail Stop and condemned to immediate death those he determined could not work and selected the healthy for a horrible incarceration and a much slower death. Explain How this Soldier could sentence All children under 12 to an immediate visit to the Gas chamber along with the sick the elderly and the infirm. Explain the thousands of shoes the entangled eyeglasses the hundreds of suitcases marked with the names of the victims l Berrian Hamburg Schwartz Wien hollandstrasse8-2. All of these commonplace items still wait for owners who will never return. Explain the Wall of death where 20,000 prisoners were executed  simple Quick gunshot to the Back continued on Page 14 outside the Camp old signs warn of the once deadly electric fences. Is Ron Jonson january 27, 1994 stripes Magaz be 73