I chose this particular video because it was very moving for me. I am struck by the images of tiny little children being led by their Mother into the gas chamber. I am left without words at knowing they are being led to their deaths. It is like being the proverbial "fly on the wall" where you can see what is happening to someone else while they do not know their own fate.
When I elected to take this Holocaust course at Rhode Island College, I came to it with many questions. I leave the class with even more questions; however, I believe that this is a great thing because we must learn before we can get better. My dream is to become a Lawyer in the very near future. This course has changed my way of thinking in a way I never imagined. I never truly understood what the word justice meant in terms of people. I believe that I do now. I will never allow myself to be a bystander. I will get involve and I will try to make a difference in this world so that events like the Holocaust can never happen again.
I must warn you that when you look at this video you will find it profound. You may even cry like I did when I saw the children. When you view the video, try to image yourself coming off the train. Try to imagine the smells; take in the colors; look closely at the people. If you look close enough you may even see what I saw--that it all looks just like home. The grass is there. The clouds are there. The dirt is even the same color. Even the people are just like you and me.
Racism and discrimination is a cancerous tumor of society that we must excise before we can begin to ever image we can heal. It is possible to get better but it must come from each and every one of us individually. The old saying, the whole outweights the needs of the one should no longer be accepted. It should be the one outweights the needs of the whole. Each individual must count because each one of us makes up the whole.
You will also find the music very moving in this video, and you may also find yourself crying when you see the children. When I see them, all I see is my own children walking towards their death. It is difficult to bear, and unfathomably to totally comprehend.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
The Children of Auschwitz
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3 comments:
Cindy,
You've put powerful words with powerful images. The challenge, as always, is to think and to question - all that we think we know.
You will also find the music very moving in this video, and you may also find yourself crying when you see the children.
Cindy,
I thought your selection and comments were really thoughtful and inspiring. In addition to the pictures selected for the video, I agree that the music was quite fitting. Enya is indeed a talented artist.
Like you I also have more questions than answers but, then again, new questions are forged from the unknown. As is the case with the Holocaust, it is human nature to try to explain the unexplainable. Trying to decode this tragedy is a natural reaction to validate and conceptualize mass murder - of which we clearly cannot. To make sense of the senseless, I would imagine, serves an important purpose: preventing something like this from happening again.
Sadly, based on what we see in Darfur, suppressing the senseless is a futile effort. With hope and education, maybe we can break this vicious cycle.
Cindy, WOW, what a film! I was greatly moved by all of the images. How could any human being do this to another human being, never the less a child. As a Jew and a mother I greatly sympathize with all who had to endure this ordeal. I think, what whould I have done if I were in this situation, especially with my 3 sons? The pain and inner termoil would have been unbearable!! This was a very moving blog and your writing is impeccable.
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