Been to Auschwitz many times in both a personal and professional capacity. It never loses its impact. The display cases of glasses in particular really gets to me. The idea of someone facing their last moments is bad enough but with their most vital sense taken as well just...

...adds another layer of cruelty and dehumanisation to what is an already shocking and horrific era in human history. The whole experience of seeing the camps - and I've been to many - is an absolute must, not only because it keeps us rooted to events that everyone should...

...know about and understand, but also because it serves as a reminder that the people who carried out the Holocaust were not monsters, or some cartoonish creation, they were men. Ordinary men. They could be us. They could be you. Humans are capable of wondrous things, of...

...great deeds, but they are also capable of horrific atrocities and we would do well to remember that. Visiting Auschwitz is a must, if you can. The horror is something we need to see. And when you're there, it's hard to describe, but the ghosts of what happened feel so very...

...close. Especially in the death camp itself. Almost like if you turned a corner past one of the cattle sheds masquerading as living spaces all of a sudden you'd be back in 1944 watching people being forcibly escorted, blinded, shaven, stripped, dehumanised, to their deaths...

...and that feeling is so powerful. The years tick by and survivors leave this life, which means that it's our collective responsibility to carry what happened in the Holocaust forward and try in whatever way we can to stop anything like that from ever happening again.