I am a mother, triathlete, cyclist, marathoner, Family Nurse Practitioner, partner, vegan, traveler, and social justice activist.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Photos from Poland
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Oh Cecily. What a desperate and sad place Aushwitz is. I wept reading your blog. You really brought the experience to life and touched my heart. I have seen a film about the death camps and can't help imagining, like you, what the people would be thinking and feeling. How they would feel helpless and hopeless and then the terror of knowing you and your babies would die in such a cruel and inhumane way. We would be there, too, because Todd is Jewish. And I imagined like you what it would feel like to be in the gas chambers with Jesse and Rachael. How it would hurt to see them afraid and suffering. You went one step further than me and imagined how you would help them through it. That is perfect, to hold them to your heart and sing to them and for your love to be the last thing they see and feel. It is incredibly painful to feel this. I feel heartbreak for the millions of people that went through this experience. Visiting with Byron, you must have felt the energy of suffering. You can feel it from the photos you took. I read a book called "Night" about a man that was in Aushwitz and lost his family and his humanity. It is a beautifully written and hauntingly painful book. He does feel like he has his humanity back and he has used his suffering to try to touch other people's lives and to create change in the world. It is hard to imagine how such things happen in the world and still are happening. How do people become so cruel and so cold? Cathy.
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Oh Cecily. What a desperate and sad place Aushwitz is. I wept reading your blog. You really brought the experience to life and touched my heart. I have seen a film about the death camps and can't help imagining, like you, what the people would be thinking and feeling. How they would feel helpless and hopeless and then the terror of knowing you and your babies would die in such a cruel and inhumane way. We would be there, too, because Todd is Jewish. And I imagined like you what it would feel like to be in the gas chambers with Jesse and Rachael. How it would hurt to see them afraid and suffering. You went one step further than me and imagined how you would help them through it. That is perfect, to hold them to your heart and sing to them and for your love to be the last thing they see and feel. It is incredibly painful to feel this. I feel heartbreak for the millions of people that went through this experience. Visiting with Byron, you must have felt the energy of suffering. You can feel it from the photos you took. I read a book called "Night" about a man that was in Aushwitz and lost his family and his humanity. It is a beautifully written and hauntingly painful book. He does feel like he has his humanity back and he has used his suffering to try to touch other people's lives and to create change in the world. It is hard to imagine how such things happen in the world and still are happening. How do people become so cruel and so cold? Cathy.
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