concentration camp [Theme]

I want, - writes Rozhetsky, - that each letter of these names should be imprinted with special clarity. These names should not be forgotten. There were death camps here. Innocent people were destroyed here by the Nazis just because they were Jews.

In the office, after interrogation and beatings, targets were sewn onto Andrey's jacket and pants - white circles with a red heart. Such targets in Buchenwald marked the most dangerous political ones: Russian officers and prisoners caught escaping from captivity.

Teresa lived in a concentration camp when she was with her mother. Since then, she knows that the concentration camp is not something exceptional, surprising - on the contrary, it is something given, basic, this is the world into which we are born and from which we can escape only with the greatest effort.

For everything to be in order, all the Chekists must be shot. Because all those sent here are penalty boxers, sadists and scoundrels, there is no point in re-educating them. But if I shoot these security officers, they won't give me others. Therefore, let everything go as it goes.

As for hell, it’s just one of the forms of life, no big deal.

The first commandant of the death camp at Sobibor and later at Treblinka, Franz Stangl, the question of American journalist Gita Sereny: "How you feel at the time thought that was the cause of the destruction of the Jews?" - replied: "Wanted to take their money. Do you understand what a fantastic amount was included in the game?"

He knew only one thing: to live means to get out of the camp, and all that should happen then, it seemed huge, vague, shifting cloud, through which he could not make out.

...prisoners were standing in formation naked. Each of them was a man. But they have long forgotten about it.

...although the life of the prisoner is not represented in the eyes of the SS any value, the quantity of the present - living or dead - had to be in strict accordance with the number of rooms and the names in the list. The bureaucracy did not retreat even before the corpses.

A death is as contagious as typhoid and alone, no matter how resist, it is very easy to die, when everything around is only doing it to die.

You never know whether you'll ever Wake up.

... former prisoner of Buchenwald, David Rousset has described what we now know happened in all concentration camps: "the Triumph of the SS required that the tortured victim was permitted to take himself to the gallows, without showing any protest that the victim renounced himself, forgot about me, so it has lost its identity. And it was done not just out of pure sadism, the SS were needed, that the victim admitted defeat. The SS understood that the system, which is able to destroy the victim before she ascends to the scaffold... is the best of all possible systems, designed to keep in slavery a people. In slavery. In submission. And there is no worse spectacle than this procession of human beings, obediently, like puppets, walking to death" (LesJours de notre mart, 1947).

They took away your childhood, and you help to take their life.

- We try to survive in order to revenge.
- You are simply trying to survive.