Just to note, my grandmother told me that the movie Schindler’s List did a great job re-creating what the camps looked like. She said that when she watched it, it brought everything back to her. It was like watching a video that was actually filmed during the Holocaust, that’s how accurate it was.
I had always pictured Auschwitz as a dirty, cramped place. Not so. It was meticulously cleaned, and the grounds were well spaced (except for the barracks where the Jews slept, but that was by design – they wanted to remove any trace of humanity from them).