A poignant and beautifully written report by @freedland from yesterday’s 75th anniversary ceremony at Auschwitz theguardian.com/world/2020/jan…
@Freedland “Auschwitz did not fall from the sky” but was the destination reached after a thousand smaller steps, each one stripping a single minority of its dignity and humanity. After the Shoah, Turski said, “The 11th commandment is: thou shalt not be indifferent.”
@Freedland “ They know that a postwar world order constructed in the shadow of Auschwitz – an architecture of international institutions and supposedly universal human rights – is in peril, the conscious and deliberate target of populist nationalist governments in Europe and beyond”
@Freedland With credit to Dylan Thomas:
"Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
"Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
