The backdrop to your life, to my life, and to so many MILLIONS of others. So many stories of escape or attempt to escape. I have still the exit permit (obscenely adorned with swastika stamps all over it) from Czechoslovakia that my grandfather obtained from a “good” Nazi official (who probably suffered for it at some point). Mere chance led him to find that opportunity. Less than twenty-four hours later the Gestapo knocked on his door, to find that the family had already flown. But so many, including all our other relatives, did not escape. How can humans allow themselves to behave so cruelly, so sinfully?
The backdrop to your life, to my life, and to so many MILLIONS of others. So many stories of escape or attempt to escape. I have still the exit permit (obscenely adorned with swastika stamps all over it) from Czechoslovakia that my grandfather obtained from a “good” Nazi official (who probably suffered for it at some point). Mere chance led him to find that opportunity. Less than twenty-four hours later the Gestapo knocked on his door, to find that the family had already flown. But so many, including all our other relatives, did not escape. How can humans allow themselves to behave so cruelly, so sinfully?
We must resolve to do better.
I thought we had resolved to do better...maybe not.