It would seem today is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
It would seem today is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Aside from the link on the Google homepage, it has been on the radio and the television. BBC seems to have carried live coverage of a major commemoration at Auschwitz, itself. What I heard was coverage on NPR when I was driving. They had a gentleman originally from Hungary who was 14 when he was sent there. His whole family died there. He only survived partly because he convinced them to put him into a work detail that separated him from his family but got him transferred to Dachau.
I don't know why, none of this happened to me, but I find these stories terribly upsetting to listen to. Very important to document, but very upsetting.
Aside from the link on the Google homepage, it has been on the radio and the television. BBC seems to have carried live coverage of a major commemoration at Auschwitz, itself. What I heard was coverage on NPR when I was driving. They had a gentleman originally from Hungary who was 14 when he was sent there. His whole family died there. He only survived partly because he convinced them to put him into a work detail that separated him from his family but got him transferred to Dachau.
I don't know why, none of this happened to me, but I find these stories terribly upsetting to listen to. Very important to document, but very upsetting.
I cried on the way home listening to a guy who was 11 talk about how he escaped on the train.
ReplyDeleteMaybe because they enumerate what that great song about that other great war alludes to?
ReplyDelete(But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned. )