Dear Guys,
these days I watched videos and films about the Holocaust to prepare for the "Memorial Day" and I took photos of my trips to Auschwitz and Dachau, two camps , the first in Poland, the second in Germany. "At Auschwitz many people, but one big silence is strange I still can not smile here in the wind, smiling in the wind here," are the words of a song by Frank Sinatra, who remind me of the intense silence of those places even in the midst of so many visitors, a silence that makes noise that bothers it forces you to think, to stop, to remain silent, to pray, to reflect, to be moved. Yes, Dear, a professor cries, suffers, feels inadequate, helpless, as there is between those avenues someone who can only be said to be immune from the pain for his role, knowledge, qualifications for, the fame, for money. I do not need, having been in concentration camps, for me to see films that deal with these issues, because I impressed on my heart and mind as I tried in person, but awareness is not presumption. I do not cry much, at least externally, but when this happens, then, there is always a tear for the deportees, their families, their friends, there is sempre una lacrima per tutti i deportati e perseguitati di oggi in tutto il mondo, quel mondo che ben poco ha imparato dalla Memoria. Scrive Etty Hillesum, morta ad Auschwitz nel 1943 a 29 anni: «Ho affrontato questo dolore, molti interrogativi hanno trovato risposta, l’assurdità ha ceduto il posto ad un po’ più di ordine e di coerenza: ora posso andare avanti di nuovo. È stata un’altra breve ma violenta battaglia, ne sono uscita con un pezzetto di maturità in più. Mi sento come un piccolo campo di battaglia su cui si combattono i problemi o alcuni problemi del nostro tempo. L’unica cosa che si può fare è offrirsi umilmente come campo di battaglia. Quei problemi devono even find accommodation in somewhere where they can fight and die down and we must open our inner space without their escape. " Dear children, do not flee from suffering, it can only receive, carry, deal with it every day as a brave soldier who knows that life is precious, but at the same time it acquires more value when it is given. Growing up does this mean and, in 35 years if I continue to grow and learn, to dream and to struggle, to fall and get up, I am sure you can do it for you and your family you grow physically and nature on your side , you have to learn how schools, universities, libraries, internet, you have to dream love, music, sports, you have to fight the fire of your age, passions, desires, you have to drop the negative examples and discouragement, to stand up who loves you and a great attachment to life. Why write these words now? What to do with the memory of the Holocaust? I will help in the words of Hannah Arendt, a German thinker of Jewish origin forced to flee Nazi persecution, " Indeed, it is my belief that evil can never be radical, but only extreme, and who have neither a depth nor demonic dimension. It can coat the entire world and destroy it, precisely because it spreads like a fungus on its surface. It is a challenge to thought, because thought he wants to go down, try to get to the roots of things, and when that is interested in evil is frustrated, because there is nothing. This is the banality. Only the good has depth and can be radical. " I believe in your ability to get to the heart of things, touching the deep roots of the Well, "suck the marrow of life," the banality of change in responsibility, sacrifice, commitment, content, action, love, a gift. So it makes sense to remember, because it is like to study history from books or from a DVD, or how to make a memorial or a nostalgic memories of the past, to commemorate with you, that you are alive, strong, special, determined, good-hearted, it means giving a different approach to this and a prophetic vision about the future because we can construct, starting with ourselves, "Well Deep and radical "in the family, study with friends, with Profs. with loved ones, with those who are immigrants, the poor, the lonely, the sick, those who think differently, those who have other skills, who Please God another Etty Hillesum writes: " We must pray with all my heart that something good will happen until the provision to keep this a good thing. Although the makes us hate our degenerate into beasts as they are, will come to nothing. " She writes in the midst of atrocity and death, the "banality of evil", she writes it for me and for you, because his "we must pray that something good happens" is realized as a prayer today, will become common commitment to transform memory in action, in real life, in women and men of good will who no longer need someone to remind him of Auschwitz or Dachau, because we have them tattooed in their hearts. Courage and hope, dear children, because even in those places of extermination, there were people such as Father Maximilian Kolbe who offered his life to save a family, There have been men and women who have transformed the horror in love!
Marco Pappalardo
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