Zigi Shipper
just to clear things up, Auschwitz was a Death Camp located in Poland and it's opened now for people all over the world to visit to learn about the past.. obviously there are other death camps and also concentration camps.. if you don't know the difference, a death camp is where the prisoners of war, jews, homosexuals, gypsies etc. were sent to, to be killed (terminated) in ways such as in the gas chamber with the cyclone B.. and a concentration camp is a place where prisoners of war were sent to, to do work such as peeling potatoes, manufacturing stuff.. but they do get punished there too......
anyways, Zigi Shipper is now about 85 years old and he was taken when he was about 14 years old.. imagine it, he's still going around schools, prisons and apparently even synagogues to tell his testimony to everyone...
people tend to ask him.. "It happened so long ago. Surely you've forgiven and forgotten about it all. How can you even remember what happened after all this time..."
He answers,
“ The question is how can I NOT remember.. how can I forget about what happened when my whole family was slaughtered... Do I hate the people who did it? I don't know, but do I forgive them? NO - for a simple reason - I don't feel I've got the right to forgive the people.. Only God can forgive, and the people that are dead can forgive, I can't...”
When the people were at the camp, they were told that a large number of them were going to take a shower in a room.. so they were asked to strip off all their clothes and write their names on their bags (so that the bags can be returned back to them after the shower).. when they entered the room, they were locked in and someone would climb to the rooftop to drop a canister of cyclone B, killing everyone in the room....
the bags belonging to the victims who thought that they were going to get their things back...
the people at the camp had to shave off all their hair... this mountain of hair belonged to the victims.. imagine how many heads have to be shaven to make this mountain of hair..
what stuck to me after the talk was this.......
“At the end of the day what does hate do? If you hate, you are the one that suffers, you become bitter and you hate everybody. DO NOT HATE... It will only destroy your life...”
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