This is at what used to be the concentration/extermination camp Auschwitz/Birkenau (now a museum), near the city of Krakow, in Poland. At the beginning, prisoners from all over Europe would be brought to this camps through the already developed rail systems, such as the one in the photo. This rail – like many others – first became the path to desperation and despair, then when the camp was liberated by the allies, this came to be the threshold of hope for the survivors.
Threshold of despair and hope
