Watching the documentary film ”Nazi Scrapbooks from Hell: Auschwitz Death Camp” is revolting. It is indeed a monster’s act of sheer evil. Yet, it happened.
By accident, the scrapbooks were found and the unknown was left open – a pandora’s box of the Holocaust.
By National Geographic
It is impossible to fully grasp by sheer imagination awakened by documentary films how and what it really was then. Picked up in masse; forcedly loaded, hauled, cramped and locked in a train; travelled in days totally unknowing where the tracks lead; abruftly halted and disembarked in the middle of nowhere where barbed-wire and warehouses lined in a distance; lined and finger-pointed to another segregation line where families and ties never existed; stripped and shaved from head to toe aggravating possible face recognition; wondering in wait what follows; standing in wait for an older family or child to reappear; looking up seeing smoke billowing over a mysteriously large chimney in commotion and continued hauling and segregation of lined up lost people - siren echoes …. then, silence. There’ll be a next day … so was hoped for … or rather, whished to none …
By National Geographic
I may not reach the ground zero of a death camp, but I know I will reach a ground zero of my person. The scrapbooks were meant to survive. Survivors are meant to outlive the chambers and a death camp. All for the 21st century not only to know and remember … but importantly to live without repeating that page of man’s history — a holocaust.
