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“Słuchaj, moje dziecko. Czy ty wiesz, czym był chleb w getcie? Bo jak nie wiesz, to nigdy nie zrozumiesz, dlaczego tysiące ludzi mogło dobrowolnie przyjść i z chlebem jechać do Treblinki. Nikt przecież tego dotychczas nie zrozumiał.”

Book:Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem

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“The murders force us to cut off the hair of our sisters a few minutes before their deaths and we, temporarily spared, do it in the shadow of the whips. We have been deprived of a reason and are the tools of criminals. My friend who worked with me sorting clothes as me quietly:— Why have you changed so much? I don't recognise you!”

Holocaust Complex Ptsd Holocaust Survivor Trauma Memory Holocaust Literature Treblinka Identity Change

Author:Chil Rajchman

“I bend over more deeply and ask him again what happens here. — Don't you see? Here they take the lives of our nearest and dearest. Don't you see that these are the close of the poor wretches who come here?”

Genocide Holocaust Concentration Camp Holocaust Survivor Treblinka

Author:Chil Rajchman

“And to split hairs, to claim that there is no comparison, that Treblinka was so to speak a metaphysical enterprise dedicated to nothing but death and annihilation while the meat industry is ultimately devoted to life (once its vicitms are dead, after all, it does not burn them to ash or bury them but on the contrary cuts them up and refrigerates and packs them so that they can be consumed in the comfort of our homes) is as little consoloation to those victims as it would have been - pardon the tastelesness of the following - to ask the dead of Treblinka to excuse their killers because their body fat was needed to make soap and their hair to stuff mattresses with.”

Animal Ethics Treblinka Animal Holocaust

Book:The Lives of Animals

Source: The Lives of Animals

“I love you as a knife loves a throat,” he murmured as the dead overwhelmed her. “I crawled out of hell to fall at your feet.”

The Emperor

Book:Long Live Evil

Source: Long Live Evil

“Aber ich werde nie begreifen! Ich begreife es einfach nicht! Ich kann es nicht begreifen: Warum! Er! Mich! Schlägt!”

Depressive Reflection

Book:Hast du uns endlich gefunden

Source: Hast du uns endlich gefunden

“It’s that I am the prison. I’m the cell, the bars, the locked door, and the scream no one hears.”

Mental Illness Schizophrenia Chronic Pain Akathisia Psychological Horror Trauma Survivor Dystonia Jonathan Harnisch Quotes Existential Torment Poetic Suffering

Book:Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“It’s not that I’m suffering inside a prison. It’s that I am the prison. I’m the cell, the bars, the locked door, and the scream no one hears.”

Mental Illness Schizophrenia Chronic Pain Akathisia Psychological Horror Trauma Survivor Dystonia Jonathan Harnisch Quotes Existential Torment Poetic Suffering

Book:Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

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