Throughout our study of the Holocaust, most of my time was spent processing how one man, more or less, managed to cause this horrendous event in human history. Hitler’s movement was the reason the word “genocide” was created. I know that when we think of events like these, we don’t necessarily associate them with our present. But just like us now, no one thought this form of evil, this desire to annihilate a whole race, could be carried out successfully. But it did. And for a long while too. The idea of furnaces, ha… furnaces, built to burn humans bodies, dead or alive, it didn’t matter. “‘Over there, that's where they will take you. Over there will be your grave. You still don't understand? You sons of bitches. Don't you understand anything? You will be burned! Burned to a cinder! Turned into ashes!’"(56 Wiesel). Can you imagine hearing that you will be burned alive or shot for reasons unknown to even Adonai Himself? Not knowing why you are in this hellhole in the fir...
This picture reminds me of what the camps looked like. It appears that the people in the photograph have lost faith and were expecting this to be the end for them. You can see the hopelessness and desperation in their expressions.
ReplyDeleteThis photo alone shows only people desperate for basic human respect, however, with the additional information that they had been liberated from this prison, and altho they have been physically released they are mentally still captured and it is an indefinite amount of time until they will be truly liberated.
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