receive and publish this report from a student and supporter of our organization who participated in this year February 12 to 18 to the "the train of memory" that includes a visit to the concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Jewish ghetto in Krakow. left from Palermo and then by train from Forli, the first stage is the Jewish ghetto in Krakow.
In 1939, the order that was given to Jews residing in the city was to hang a sign outside your home that characterize their presence. It then deny them access to parks and public spaces, as long as in 1940 is definitely required a transfer to the city center. In 1940, Jews in Krakow exceed 25% of the population. The district was so reduced that number of people who were forced to live in inhumane conditions. The Jews were once robbed of all their possessions: their homes, personal effects, cars ... 60,000 people reduced to living in poverty and deprived of their lives and their past and the Nazi regime takes possession of their movable and immovable property. The ghetto had only four gates to the outside, having crossed only by those who still work outside the perimeter wall of the area (stone wall built in the shape of Jewish!) until, in 1941 the Nazi regime, without any scruples, punishes by death anyone who attempted to pass him. In 1942 all Jews were expelled from the ghetto unemployed (deliberately aggravated the situation by the Germans) and deported to the camp Belzec, where they are killed. The liquidation of the ghetto was in March 1943. Most of the Jews was deported to Auschwitz.
Second stage: the complex of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The vision of the concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau horrifies us from the entry to the vision of the sign "Arbeit macht frei", work makes you free. The construction of the same rests with the deportees, with 20% that was not immediately killed in gas chambers but used for every kind of job base and degrading. The gas chambers and ovens were controlled and administered by the Sonderkommando, a team composed of displaced obliged to cooperate with the SS. The Sonderkommando, where possible, tried to organize acts of resistance, through dissemination to the outside of photographic material and documents denouncing the conditions under which they were subjected in the camp, but most of the attempts were ignored by the authorities Polish. The contents of the Block 5 is what was found in the huts burned before the end of the Nazi regime, called "Canada", where all goods were deposited inside the property of prisoners. It is impossible not to leave the block without feeling a minimum of 5 in horror looking at the tangible evidence of a racist, homophobic and sexist whose purpose was to oppress and destroy all right: in that building there are thousands of glasses, clothes, suitcases, piles of shoes, personal items, photographs. More disturbing is to see, a few meters away from your nose, those which were accumulated were inside the ashes of the millions of deportees killed in the crematoria. The annihilation of human dignity.
Men and women forced to live in inhumane conditions, sleeping on mattresses on the concrete and eating rotten food. Mocked by the SS. Inserted in a machine of which were gearing and victims who killed them, but only after they have been humiliated to deny them any possibility of human dignity. Many of the prisoners, due to stress, were affected by mental illness and many commit suicide running into electrical wires that surrounded the camp fence. Many were still
the abuses of the Nazis. For example, the newborn twins were under pseudo-medical treatments that included the ruthless and gangrene appearance of tumors in their bodies. Among the other shame, that of being forced to carry the bodies inside the camp of those who, during the endless hours of grueling work, was dying of hunger and starvation.
conclusions.
The meeting held at the end of the day saw all students started with us and the experience has certainly marked for life. It made us reflect on what you need to have the memory of those facts, but at the same time needed to actualize this reality of modern fascism that we see today and act accordingly. We all have a responsibility and duty to rebel against the government order with the appropriate action, which is not only to demonstrate peacefully, which is now an end in itself. It is essential that the history is not buried or forgotten, it is vital to raise awareness and disseminate anti-Fascist barbarism is being aware of what governments are capable of architects who can fight against modern fascism of Berlusconi's government and its servants who are peddling racist and xenophobic ideas and arrangements.
Against Fascism is not a step backwards!
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