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To Write What one Could Not Tell Anyone You who live in all
tranquility So warm and comfortable in your houses, You who come
home at night to find The table laid and friendly faces around you,
Consider if this is a man, He who toils in the mud, Who knows no
rest, Who fights for a crust of bread, Who dies for the slightest
reason. Consider if this is a woman, She who has lost her name and
her hair, And even the strength to remember, Her gaze blank and her
bosom chilled, Like a frog in winter. Do not forget that this
happened, No, do not forget it: Engrave these words in your heart.
Think of them in your home, in the street, When you sleep, when you
rise; Repeat them to your children. Or else your house will
crumble, You will be overcome by illness, And your children will
turn away from you (Levi 1987:9, the translations is mine). At
Auschwitz, Filip Muller was assigned to the Sonderkommando. Every
day, with his fellow prisoners, he emptied the gas chambers of
their piles of defiled corpses and loaded them into the crematorium
furnaces of the extermination camp."
To Write What one Could Not Tell Anyone You who live in all
tranquility So warm and comfortable in your houses, You who come
home at night to find The table laid and friendly faces around you,
Consider if this is a man, He who toils in the mud, Who knows no
rest, Who fights for a crust of bread, Who dies for the slightest
reason. Consider if this is a woman, She who has lost her name and
her hair, And even the strength to remember, Her gaze blank and her
bosom chilled, Like a frog in winter. Do not forget that this
happened, No, do not forget it: Engrave these words in your heart.
Think of them in your home, in the street, When you sleep, when you
rise; Repeat them to your children. Or else your house will
crumble, You will be overcome by illness, And your children will
turn away from you (Levi 1987:9, the translations is mine). At
Auschwitz, Filip Muller was assigned to the Sonderkommando. Every
day, with his fellow prisoners, he emptied the gas chambers of
their piles of defiled corpses and loaded them into the crematorium
furnaces of the extermination camp."
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