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RE: Auschwitz - Putting a Face to the Name
incredible post brother, the faces on the wall was what got me too. I can see why you are in a daze writing for 3 hours, I am guessing this took even longer, I know from editing my video I was lost in the emotions I was too numb to really feel while I was there...A lot of what I felt while sitting and going back through my photos and spending time thinking about trying to make some sort of order of my photos to the chaos that took place had a strong impact for me for sure. Its something we will never forget having visited this place and I am glad to have shared this with so many of my fellow steemians and now you. Great job!
Yeah, you're so right about the emotional impact and the picture hallway hits hard as it brings it home that these were, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers... and in fact they could/should be considered our family. This shit could happen again if we're not careful as a species and start to recognize when we are being manipulated by extremist ideology. It's an insanely complicated issue and I guess I'm simplifying things somewhat, but I strongly believe that this global culture of separation through national (tribal) identity is something we're long overdue evolving beyond. Ha ha, but enough of that political stuff.
I wrote 2 more verses to that poem (the first was written a few days ago) but the new verses just weren't good enough. The intensity had gone from the poem compared to the verse I wrote the other day and I was pretty numb after writing the opening part of this post.
I shall go and check out your video Vlad. I agree that the sharing of these 'challenging' experiences is a key part of healing the collective unconscious from such extremes of inhuman humanity.