We spent a long time there, reading every single sign and story, and you'd think that going back so soon afterwards I would have felt I'd already learned it all. But this time, I went with a museum guide who gave "shape" to the story through her oral storytelling, and I found the experience to be even more emotionally reaching. When we arrived at this room, I remembered that it had lines from how the world stood by and watched or ignored the horrific situation; but this time, the enormity the implications made for a tearful ending to this second trip. The room had lines written all around on the walls, and the spinning columns made me feel the world continuing to go around as the horrors were happening. The top line reads, "I let my fellow people die without a word in opposition."
Looking back now, I wonder, whose stories are we standing by and doing nothing about in our world today?
I have never sorted out whether what was done was worse or that it was ignored for so long and even today people are denying it. So much hatred and jealously in the world. Think that is one thing I like about 365 - we share the odd beauty we find in the world and feel the world getting smaller because of it.
@jackies365 thank you for understanding what I was trying to convey -- the type is so small it's hard to read, but you get the sense of spinning words.
@joansmor -- Being in Poland, and living among the stories and evidence, I can't understand how anyone could deny it. But I agree with you -- 365 gives us a sense of community across our world, and people who listen as we share the stories we come across. Thank you.
A powerful image, Junko -- and as always, a powerful narrative to accompany it. To me the significance is in the change from the early 1990s when we could stand in a similar spot and be told a message of denial by an official state guide. This is such an important shift, though a long time in coming.
@joansmor -- Being in Poland, and living among the stories and evidence, I can't understand how anyone could deny it. But I agree with you -- 365 gives us a sense of community across our world, and people who listen as we share the stories we come across. Thank you.