who we are. in Drifter in Zion
- June 26, 2019, 2:08 a.m.
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- Public
We visited the Holocaust Museum six years ago, but I can still smell the hoard of shoes taken from victims: worn leather and sweat; thousands of footsteps cut short.
They took their glasses, too.
Their watches and jewelry.
Their wallets.
Their hair.
Their dignity.
It’s easy to disassociate from the ugliness. It’s easy to say, “It’s not my loved ones. It’s not happening. This isn’t really happening.”
But it is happening.
Again.
Families are being pull apart.
People -children…God, children…are being stripped of their dignity: no soap, no toothbrushes, tinfoil blankets and a cement bed, no comfort, no love.
Is this who we are?
They started as work camps.
They ended as death sentences.
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•kitkat• ⋅ June 26, 2019
It's truly disheartening to see what our country is becoming.
DrifterinZion •kitkat• ⋅ June 26, 2019
Yeah, it really is terrible. It breaks my heart.
Just Molly ⋅ July 09, 2019
The visit to the holocaust museum was a sobering experience. I will never be able to forget the pile of shoes or the voices of the survivors telling their stories. Haunting. Chilling. And terrifying that we're seeing such parallels in our own country.