" Finally we reach the end of the camp where the kitchens stood. A round concrete ring rises out of the earth, maybe 6 feet in diameter. Someone finally speaks and asks Alicja what it was. A giant flowerpot. It was for flowers. She tells us also that they were placed near the entrances of the gas chambers. Flowers at the gas chambers.   We "

― Matthew A. Rozell , A Train Near Magdeburg: A Teacher's Journey into the Holocaust, and the Reuniting of the Survivors and Liberators, 70 years on