The Holocaust
Padua is a very ancient city with roots that reach far back into antiquity. It is home to a famous university that at one point was the only one to accept Jewish students.
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We learned that at the time the synagogues were built in the 16th century, Jews were not permitted to be architects so they were designed by Christians.
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I learned her hopes and dreams and it seemed I knew her.
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“And now a prayer—or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all or heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.” – Elie Wiesel, Night
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a stark reminder of the 4 million refugees in Poland right now and the importance of making connections to the past to inform our knowledge of the present.
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A strikingly beautiful doe raced across the field where jagged trenches, now covered in grass, marked the site where thousands of human lives were stolen.
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Perhaps living in an area with such a heavy history requires local inhabitants to compartmentalize the past to function in the present.
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The power of their writing is a witness to what happened and was also used in actual trials as evidence of Nazi war crimes.
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It makes me wonder and sometimes despair about how much I don’t know. It also further instills in me a desire to learn more.
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This was not a paradise as the word is defined “an ideal or idealistic state,” but rather a brief moment in time where life was a bit better than before, but still with hardship and hatred
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