The Holocaust
A strikingly beautiful doe raced across the field where jagged trenches, now covered in grass, marked the site where thousands of human lives were stolen.
Perhaps living in an area with such a heavy history requires local inhabitants to compartmentalize the past to function in the present.
The power of their writing is a witness to what happened and was also used in actual trials as evidence of Nazi war crimes.
It makes me wonder and sometimes despair about how much I don’t know. It also further instills in me a desire to learn more.
This was not a paradise as the word is defined “an ideal or idealistic state,” but rather a brief moment in time where life was a bit better than before, but still with hardship and hatred
the importance of providing witness, and now, as we listen to the speakers and step foot in these important places the responsibility we now carry to do the same.
As the War in Poland was winding to an end and the Jews had been gathered into the Warsaw Ghetto, it was important to those who were left to leave their story for the future in order to offset the propaganda that was being generated by the victors.
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The tomb stones are weathered, and some have been vandalized.
