The trivialization of the Holocaust and the end of love
I was born on February 24th. I'm a Pisces in the horoscope. On this day, February 24th, was also Born my little cousin. On February, 24th was also born my dear uncle, Zamque. Also a Pisces, even if I’m quite sure he never knew it. He’s already gone.
He was born in Poland, half brother of my grandfather. Son of my grand grandfather. He was a gentle person. Always smiling, with a far deep sadness. Always happy with what He had around, and saddened by what he had lived. My uncle was found after the War in Dahau. A concentration camp in Germany. He weighed 25 kilos when He was found.
He was born in Poland, half brother of my grandfather. Son of my grand grandfather. He was a gentle person. Always smiling, with a far deep sadness. Always happy with what He had around, and saddened by what he had lived. My uncle was found after the War in Dahau. A concentration camp in Germany. He weighed 25 kilos when He was found.
When getting off the train at Auschwitz, he saw his mother and sister taken away. They placed him back on the train. His mother was murdered. His sister, miraculously survived Auschwitz. He survived Dahau, working. Forced to collect bodies from the gas chambers, and carrying them to the ovens.
He never got married or had children. Till the end of his life one could see the deep scars of the Holocaust. The same Holocaust that took his mother, cousins, uncles ... It took a sgnificant part of my family, and of so many other’s. It took millions of Jews. It took gypsies, gays ... It took human dignity so low that still haunts us.
Lately it seems that people are tired of such barbarity. People are treating the subject with banality. The inconsistent and questionable filmmaker Von Trier, in his irresponsible speech at Cannes assumed himself as a Nazi, believing it could sound as an exotic treat. He was banned from Cannes at least. Prince Harry of Britain, appeared some time ago in a Nazi uniform at a costumes party. He redeemed himself in public, as if it was excusable. He forgot his country fought the Nazis, and citizens died in droves this pelea. Brazilian humorist, Danilo Gentili, made a sad joke about the Holocaust in his twitter, and some think it was just a bad joke and not worth any emotion ...
I'm not talking about assumed convinced Nazis, because one Who assumes himself a real Nazi deserves a very different aproach. I’m talking about those whom, tired of this terrible passage, which showed all the cruelty of the human soul, mistakebly try to trivialize the subject in order to leave it behind.
If you want to turn Nazism into a turned page in History , then try to act from Love, and work for a more decent world, where human beings are connected from their hearts and emotion. Work for a world without encouraging discrimination and prejudice. Refuse to minimize Holocaust importance.
Do not dispise this terrible page in history, because in doing so, you disrespect my uncle. Disrespect me and even yourself. Disrespect millions of souls that were burned, buried and banned from the world just because they were blacks, Jews, gypsies or gay, or just because they understood those people were lovable, worthy to live and be loved. Those were also killed with amazing cruelty.
A turned page is also part of the page we are reading now, and we will lose part of its meaning if we eliminate it from our understanding of the present. The Nazi Holocaust was one of the most terrifying passages in human history. One of the darkest cold shadows in man's existence, and we have not yet learned all the lessons we need to make the world a better place.
The Holocaust is not to be remembered as a holy pedestal. But it is not to be forgotten. It is to be respected as an important lesson, as an uncomfortable alert, at least with the sacred respect to those who found there the end of their lives.
The Holocaust did not try to burn only beings who they considered unpure. The Holocaust tried to destroy the love that rests in men soul. We can never let that happen.
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