I had finally done it! After all that hard work I couldn’t believe that I was actually staring at the impossible. The impossible that I had made possible. It was standing right in front of me, ready to be tested. An actual time machine.
I wasted no time and stepped into the machine that I had been working on for so long. While putting in the data needed, my hands were having trouble catching up to my brain. The first travel back in time had to be a major one. An event that was so major, yet one with still many uncovered truths.
I set the date to early 1944, a critical time in World War II. The machine started glowing with strange lights and in an instant, I was no longer in my laboratory but in a place of deep sadness. I recognized the place immediately as I had once visited a few years ago; The Auschwitz concentration camp, the largest of them all.
The first thing I noticed was the guards with guns, watching every move carefully. There were also tall, barbed wires with electrical insulators as if the guards weren’t enough.
As I was walking through the camp carefully trying not to attract any attention to myself, I kept examining my surroundings. The sight of thin and pale people with dirty clothes was heartbreaking. Just as I was lost in my thoughts, I saw a group of children. They were also pale and the light in their eyes was no longer present. The only thing that could be seen was true horror.
The smell and smoke in the air coming from the crematories was a terrible reminder of what was happening. The situation was even worse in the barracks. A place that was anything else other than a place to sleep, yet it was where all these poor people spent the night. Bunk beds filled the area, not even leaving any space to move. At least two people were sharing the same bed. They were huddled together; seeking warmth since the thin, dirty blankets were no use.
I exited the barrack immediately as I was not able to bear any more of this horrible sight. I also heard a siren blare. Panic was starting to spread, and I knew I had to leave.
I rushed back to the machine and immediately activated it. However, there seemed to be something wrong. There wasn’t a single sign of the machine’s usual glow or its strange noises. My heart sank as desperation took over my body. Now I was a part of this hopeless history…