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Anne with Vera Schiff
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Wall, Treblinka, but our trip ended at
Majdanek. This camp had one purpose:
death. It is intact and is, for me, the
most impacting of all the camps I have
been to. The Mausoleum holds the ashes
of people who were killed and burned
there; flecks of bone are still visible; it
is raw. Here we came face to face with
the end result of all we had seen: the
ashes of innocent people. And here I
had to evaluate what I learned from this
experience.
As an educator, I feel the responsibility
to instill in my students a sense of
compassion for humanity; that they
may recognize hatred and prejudice
wherever they may encounter it and
be able to fight it, even if they find it in
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themselves. My
students will know
what happened and
what is happening. Genia Manor took my
hand and said to me, “Please don’t let our
stories be forgotten.” I have taken that
as my personal responsibility to her and
the many other survivors whom I have
met; their stories and the lessons to be
learned from them will be told. Seeing
the places and walking in the same steps
as so many who died has made the Shoah
visually real to me. I am a photographer
and feel and see with images. It was not
until I was processing my images that
many of the emotions hit me. It makes
me even more prepared to combat
deniers when I encounter them.
Personally, this trip
left me with even
more questions
than I had before.
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The Umshlagplatz, Warsaw -
where the Jews were held before deportation
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The more I learn and witness, I feel that
I should be coming to some answers.
However, perhaps Vera said it best at
Majdanek when she explained why she
came on the trip. “ I came in the hopes
that this time I would find closure. I did
not find it. I now have to accept that
this is not a place where you can find
closure.” If we are able to come to terms
with the Shoah; to find all the answers,
then we are very close to rationalizing it.
That, indeed, would be a very dangerous
place to be.
If you are interested in viewing my
pictures from the trip this is my Flickr
site.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/annemcl/
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