“La semana pasada estuve en Auschwitz”
Reportaje gráfico sobrecogedor enviado por FCV.
Three men who stood in the same line in Auschwitz have nearly consecutive numbers: From left, Menachem Shulovitz, 80, bears B14594; Anshel Udd Sharezky, 81, was B14595; and Jacob Zabetzky, 83, was B14597.
“We were strangers standing in line in Auschwitz, we all survived different paths of hell, and we met in Israel,” Mr. Sharezky said. “We stand here together now after 65 years. Do you realize the magnitude of the miracle?”
Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.
Felix Nussbaum, Dec. 11, 1904 (murdered 1944 in Auschwitz) - German Surrealist painter of Jewish descent…
Above: Self-Portrait in Camp, 1940 (Jewish Museum in Paris)
Under the supervision of the American liberators, German civilians from the town of Hurlach are forced to carry corpses to mass graves for burial at Kaufering IV concentration camp.
Campo de concentración de Nordhausen en Alemania, el 17 de abril de 1945. Soldados americanos viendo el terrorífico paisaje de cuerpos en el suelo.
En su obra Los hundidos y los salvados, Primo Levi se angustiaba pensando en quiénes habían sobrevivido a los campos de concentración nazis y quiénes habían perdido la vida. “Los ‘salvados’ de Auschwitz no eran los mejores, los predestinados al bien, los portadores de un mensaje; cuanto yo había visto y vivido me demostraba precisamente lo contrario. Preferentemente sobrevivían los peores, los egoístas, los violentos, los insensibles, los colaboradores de ‘la zona gris’, los espías”. Termina diciendo: “Sobrevivían los peores, es decir, los más aptos; los mejores han muerto todos”. Esa era la tragedia que Primo Levi no pudo soportar: que, en aquel entorno social, los “aptos” eran los peores.
One day Desnos and others were taken away from their barracks. The prisoners rode on the back of a flatbed truck; they knew the truck was going to the gas chamber; no one spoke. Soon they arrived and the guards ordered them off the truck. When they began to move toward the gas chamber, suddenly Desnos jumped out of line and grabbed the hand of the woman in front of him. He was animated and he began to read her palm. The forecast was good: a long life, many grandchildren, abundant joy. A person nearby offered his palm to Desnos. Here, too, Desnos foresaw a long life filled with happiness and success. The other prisoners came to life, eagerly thrusting their palms toward Desnos and, in each case, he foresaw long and joyous lives.
