“The Holocaust is a central event in many people’s lives,
but it also has become
a metaphor
for
our century.
There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it.”
― Aharon Appelfeld
but it also has become
a metaphor
for
our century.
There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it.”
― Aharon Appelfeld
The last walk: walking to the crematoria at Birkenau - Auschwitz.
Incinerator ovens at Crematorium One in Birkenau - Auschwitz.
There were four crematoria. |
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Sorted brushes.
Sorted, weighed, and labeled hair bales.
Woods behind crematoria, where people waited to die.
“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”
― Yehuda Bauer Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst, members of The White Rose, a German resistance group centered at Munich University whose resistance against Hitler's totalitarianism lasted nine months before they and other members were caught and guillotined.
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Survivors.
Entrance to Birkenau - Auschwitz.
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“Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone.”
― Sophie Scholl "Education is dangerous ― every educated person is a future enemy." ― Hermann Goering,
Hitler's second in command |
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi, Italian Jewish chemist and writer
― Primo Levi, Italian Jewish chemist and writer