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Originally Posted by davidmash
We went to Auschwitz with my dad in '05. The guide basically let my dad give a lot of the tour. She. We went to the building with the shoes... It was a sobering experience to.say the least. They Ask had a room with glasses, hair, clothing all side by side. Hard to explain the feeling that comes.over you when you think of the cold utilitarian nature of the nazis.
The weird thing was all through the camp my dad was fine. Across the street was a synthetic fuel plant where my dad worked for a while. There was a memorial out front. That is where he broke down. The plant was still operational when we were there.
I'm.glsd he survived as well for obvious reasons. Something I have been think of is that were it not for my parents suffering, they would never have met and I would not have been born. Not sure how to feel.about that. Not that I have anything to do with it but it is weird to be grateful that they came together the way they did.
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To you last paragraph... That cosmic irony is a not infrequent consequence of disaster, whether human caused or natural. It’s like a karmic balance repaid. But in reality, it makes no sense. In my world, there is no karma and I think God is an open question. For some survivors the event destroys belief in God. Others find redemption in the same event.
In my lifetime I’ve been involved in search and rescue or recovery from several natural disasters. In those instances victims were random and survival was largely circumstantial. Great assistance was generally forthcoming and longer term.
In those ways natural disasters differ from the disaster of the Final Solution. More is the horror for its industrial intentionality.