Post by Hippiejo on Mar 22, 2021 23:44:22 GMT
I am always incredibly moved by any historical accounts of what happened at Auschwitz but this book hurt my heart. I think the visuals drawn by Thomas Geve are some of the most profound I've seen and that they are the drawings of a child is devastating.
The images in the movie Schindlers list of the confiscated personal belongings were forefront in my mind when reading Thomas Geve's account of people being stripped of absolutely everything they possessed including their identities and it's soul destroying.
Most of the time, the whole transport would go straight to it's death, like cattle to the slaughter. We would see them come in. Then their journey's end would announce itself with a dark, creeping smoke, slowly rising above the western horizon from the crematoria of Birkenau.
........ this broke me!
I do wish we had been given translations of the writings on some of the pictures because I'm not sure I fully understood all of them but the impact was not lessened for the lack of them.
Thomas Geve presents us with a visually vivid description of the horrors that took place in the Auschwitz concentration camps and if ever we needed reminders of just how wicked man can be, they lie within the pages of this book. But the book also reminds us of bravery, courage, resourcefulness and determination to survive against all the odds.
This can just never happen again. 😢
