Watched and glad I did. It’s good for these women they could do this, I’m sure that it’s good for the soul, a little bit of healing.
I met a woman who had been in Auschwitz, back in the 90s. She was Jewish, was in the population. I asked her did she pray. She told me ‘we prayed all the time’. I asked her if she was afraid (then). Ok, dumb question but I wanted to hear her answer. She said ‘we were numb with fear’. I could feel her remembering, as she spoke. She began with telling me she did not want to talk about it. We were in her kitchen. I was sitting on a little stool next to a kitchen counter. She went and got me coffee and when she came to me with the coffee these were the only things she said to me about it. They were said, slowly and with a great deal of heaviness in her face, I could tell the memories she thought of were not spoken to me. She then became quiet and no more was said.
Terrible for her. I know she lost many loved ones there, I could feel that, and she still grieved for even the strangers she had shared that experience with, the people who never left Auschwitz.
That’s a powerful story. Thanks for sharing.
She was still numb.