It was the summer of 1985. I was touring parts of Europe as one-third of a musical trio, and our adventures took us to southern Poland for a few days. There are many details about our stay that have evaporated from my memory…. But what will forever be seared into my memory is our visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, the concentration camps where 1.3 million prisoners suffered at the hands of the Nazis and 1.1 million were murdered. 960,000 of these were Jews.