DAY 342 | Platform 3

At Krakow Central Train Station, I asked for a round-trip ticket to Auschwitz. It wasn’t until the clerk slid the stub across the glass that the casual cruelty of the phrase—round-trip—actually hit me.

— Last 3xit, January 2026

"Even a peaceful landscape; even a meadow with crows in flight, harvests, and grass fires; even a road where cars, peasants, and couples pass by; even a resort village with its fair and its bell tower, can lead quite simply to a concentration camp. Struthof, Oranienburg, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Belsen, Ravensbrück, Dachau, were once names like any others on maps and in guidebooks."

— The above passage is the opening narration from Jean Cayrol’s script for the 1956 documentary Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog, Nacht und Nebel), directed by Alain Resnais.

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