"Christmas Eve". A painting by an Auschwitz survivor Janina Tollik (1946).

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@auschwitzmuseum From my privileged position (a lucky place however hard I may have worked) I see this image on this day and instinctually reject it, the way it encroaches for a few seconds on my perfect little life… and then it reminds me that none of this I have is a given right (by god or whoever floats your boat), but a circumstantial blessing of time and place, and sadly I feel only more thankful for what I have. Never forget
@mori @auschwitzmuseum I think our role as educators at the Memorial is not only to teach history and facts but also make people slightly uncomfortable, to trigger that kind of a reflections because this history must be a warning. Thank you for those words.
@pawelsawicki @auschwitzmuseum This should always be uncomfortable