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RE: Auschwitz - Putting a Face to the Name
Wow Rowan.. this is so powerful In so many ways.. I’ve seen quite a few posts about this trip and yours is the first to actually stop me in my tracks. You capture the soul of humanity here in a heartbreaking but important way. Your words and pictures work together to make a huge impact in only a way you could do. Thanks for sharing this. ❤️
Thanks for this awesome feedback Justine. It was such a hard place to visit but so important to make that difficult journey. I feel like the poem and thoughts I express here are a truth that has been expressed before, about re-telling and never forgetting the lessons of this atrocity. But I was trying to tell it in my own way, speak my truth about how it made me feel but also the wider lesson of this history. This is all only my own opinion, but I see the same attitudes of 'turn the other cheek' still perpetuated all around the world, all be it in much less extreme circumstances.
Hopefully, it is just a case of another few hundred years of evolution of thought, of retelling these stories and histories until the human race changes fundamentally to stop visiting violence on ourselves and the planet on which we live.
Ha ha, maybe I'm just a massive hippie and I'm good with that... but the type of hippie to get up and do/say something where I see the opportunity to make a difference.