William Lindsey :toad: on Nostr: I keep thinking these days of what Etty Hillesum wrote on 8 June 1943 after watching ...
I keep thinking these days of what Etty Hillesum wrote on 8 June 1943 after watching a train transport 3,000 Jews to Auschwitz, many of them infants with tuberculosis:
“The sky is full of birds, the purple lupins stand up so regally and peacefully, two little old women have sat down on the box for a chat, the sun is shining on my face – and right before our eyes, mass murder. The whole thing is simply beyond comprehension.”
#Nazis #Holocaust #fascism
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~ Letters from Westerbork, p. 56
“The sky is full of birds, the purple lupins stand up so regally and peacefully, two little old women have sat down on the box for a chat, the sun is shining on my face – and right before our eyes, mass murder. The whole thing is simply beyond comprehension.”
#Nazis #Holocaust #fascism
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~ Letters from Westerbork, p. 56