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From Auschwitz to Gaza: the legacy of silence that repeats itself!
From Auschwitz, to Bosnia, to Gaza; the lines connecting these tragedies are not only the bloody history of humanity, but proof that what allows violence to be repeated is the silence. Not only of the victims, but above all of the world that chooses to watch and not act.
In 1944, a 16-year-old boy boarded a train to Auschwitz. Today, his daughter, Jill Klein, remembers the silence of those who saw him board the train and said nothing. They were silent even when they brought him home, alive but broken, one of the few who survived. Those who were silent were not the Nazis. They were the neighbors, the fellow citizens, the passersby. They were those who could have done something, but chose not to risk their own comfort.
Thirty years later, in Bosnia, Damir Mitrić was only 13 years old when he experienced the horrors of war, purges and hatred that was fueled by the same mechanism: the transformation of man into an "enemy", the division of societies and then the unleashing of violence as a solution.
Today, in Gaza, thousands of children are among the ruins. Stripped of their childhood, surrounded by hunger, trauma, bombings, and voices demanding justice, but drowned out in a political noise that even relativizes pain.
All three of these episodes; Auschwitz, Bosnia, Gaza, take place in different times, places and circumstances. But they have a common denominator: what made them possible was not just the hatred of the executioners. It was the lack of courage of others to say: enough!
Genocide does not happen suddenly. It is prepared with words, with division, with denials, and in a society that closes its eyes. In the digital age, no one can say “I didn’t know.” The victims are before our eyes, on our screens. Silence today is no longer a product of ignorance. It is a choice.
And every choice has a price./ Pamphlet
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