DAY 342 | Platform 3

At Krakow's 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, Krakow, January 31, 2026.

"Même un paysage tranquille ; même une prairie avec des vols de corbeaux, des moissons et des feux d’herbe ; même une route où passent des voitures, des paysans, des couples ; même un village pour vacances, avec une foire et un clocher, peuvent conduire tout simplement à un camp de concentration. Le Struthof, Oranienburg, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Belsen, Ravensbrück, Dachau furent des noms comme les autres sur des cartes et des guides."

— Introduction du texte de Jean Cayrol pour Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog, Nacht und Nebel, Noche y Niebla), documentaire d'Alain Resnais, 1956.

"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 other 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, Noche y Niebla), directed by Alain Resnais.

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