European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
-
Activity as eyewitness; message
-
I was invited as a witness to a school.
-
I had a teacher friend and as we talked he said:
-
“You should come talk in schools, otherwise it will be forgotten history.”
-
I agreed, but hadn’t really thought about what that meant.
-
So I went.
-
It was difficult.
-
When you are with 30 students, it is very difficult to talk about all these things:
-
about the arrival of Jewish or Gypsy convoys, the children, sometimes babies in their mothers arms.
-
I wondered if one should talk about it or rather not talk about it.
-
I decided to talk about what National Socialism had done,
-
about what we had gone through and about what we had seen with our own eyes.
-
In Birkenau,
-
the first big camp we went to, these convoys arrived, filled with Jews, with Gypsies.
-
There were men and women, but children as well, and babies in their mother’s arms.
-
We saw them, we were not far away and we knew what was going to happen. That hurt a lot, it still does.
-
Whenever I go to a school and have to talk about these subjects, concerning children…
-
the soup doesn’t taste as good in the evening.
-
What is remarkable when you go into a classroom is that you never have to ask for silence.
-
They are very attentive to what one says. That encourages us to go to the schools.
No more segments to load.
Loading more segments…
© 2009-2024 WebTranslateIt Software S.L. All rights reserved.
Terms of Service
·
Privacy Policy
·
Security Policy