{"id":257339,"date":"2024-03-18T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=257339"},"modified":"2024-03-17T03:54:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T03:54:42","slug":"starvation-camp-in-poland-1941-fast-forward-to-gaza-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/03\/starvation-camp-in-poland-1941-fast-forward-to-gaza-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Starvation Camp in Poland, 1941–>Fast-forward to Gaza, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Cry from the Szebnie Concentration Camp, 1941, Poland<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cA poem written by Wis\u0142awa Szymborska (1923\u20132012) about the Szebnie concentration camp in Jas\u0142o (southern Poland), which held Polish Jews, Romani people, and Soviet prisoners of war from 1941 until the camp was liberated by the Red Army in September 1944. Brutal, horrible violence was inflicted by the Nazis at Szebnie, particularly against the thousands of Jews who were killed there in mass executions. Szymborska\u2019s poem, does not flinch from the wretchedness surrounding her, nor from the possibility of humanity for which she yearned.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>— Vijay Prasad<\/p>\n

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Write it down. Write it. With ordinary ink
\non ordinary paper: they weren\u2019t given food,
\nthey all died of hunger. All. How many?<\/em>
\nIt\u2019s a large meadow. How much grass<\/em>
\nper head?<\/em> Write down: I don\u2019t know.
\nHistory rounds off skeletons to zero.
\nA thousand and one is still only a thousand.
\nThat one<\/em> seems never to have existed:
\na fictitious foetus, an empty cradle,
\na primer opened for no one,
\nair that laughs, cries, and grows,
\nstairs for a void bounding out to the garden,
\nno one\u2019s spot in the ranks.<\/p>\n

It became flesh right here, on this meadow.
\nBut the meadow\u2019s silent, like a witness who\u2019s been bought.
\nSunny. Green. A forest close at hand,
\nwith wood to chew on, drops beneath the bark to drink \u2013
\na view served round the clock,
\nuntil you go blind. Above, a bird
\nwhose shadow flicked its nourishing wings
\nacross their lips. Jaws dropped,
\nteeth clattered.<\/p>\n

At night a sickle glistened in the sky
\nand reaped the dark for dreamed-of loaves.
\nHands came flying from blackened icons,
\neach holding an empty chalice.
\nA man swayed
\non a grill of barbed wire.
\nSome sang, with dirt in their mouths. That lovely song<\/em>
\nabout war hitting you straight in the heart.<\/em>
\nWrite how quiet it is.
\nYes.<\/p>\n

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Gaza Strip Mar 2024 – Children starving to death by Israeli Zionist forces – Nazism Redux<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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