A Survivor Among Them, reprinted with the kind permission of:
Noah Kleiger, an Auschwitz survivor who has re-visited Auschwitz several times, writes:
For many years now, every time I arrive at Auschwitz, I get the same feeling. It appears to me that it wasn’t me who was here during this incredibly dark period, but rather, someone else whose story I heard at some point in life.
For many years now I’ve been thinking about those Germans who worked at Auschwitz and at other extermination camps. How could it be that every evening the officers returned to their villas outside the camp, kissed their wife and kids, and sat down for dinner with their family? How did they stroke their cat and play with their dog – as I saw with my own eyes many times when I passed by them on my way to doing more hard labor. In the morning, these officers went back to their job: The extermination of thousands of Jews.
How can that be?
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