Like lambs to the slaughter they were led.But with one significant difference, lambs were treated more humanely. They were not tortured before death.
I recently saw the movie “The Resistance Banker” it has one subtle but yet powerful scene, no words were spoken. A regular passenger train is stopped to facilitate a transport train to pass by. The passenger in the regular train see people crammed in cattle cars on the transport train and they hear babies crying. The scene only lasts for a minute, but that image will last for a lifetime.
I knew the circumstances in the cattle cars were dire but that bit of movie made it so clear to me, the crying babies it made my heart stop for a second.
The horrors even dawned more clearly on me then. I have traveled with young children on a luxurious 21st century train and it was extremely difficult to keep my kids entertained and quiet, this was in a train where they were able to move around and get refreshments if they wanted to.
It is impossible for me to fathom the anxiety,fear,stress and psychological terror parents on those transport trains must have felt, leave alone the physical discomfort and pain, caused by so many crammed into a small wagon.
Even before they reached their final destination they were stripped from their dignity. Yet they had to try to stay positive for the youngsters to ensure hope would not fade away.
So many showed in these inhumane circumstances a humanity which none of us nowadays are able to display. They had everything to lose and indeed lost everything often even their lives. They knew what their end would bring, like the lambs brought to the slaughter.
We have everything to gain by never forgetting the horrors they endured.
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Dirk, I’ve always wondered about this since I became a follower of yours. Whenever I try to click on what looks like the Donate link below, it’s actually not a link, or button. Nothing happens, it’s not clickable. So I’m thinking, there must be some way to make that work. Only because I wonder if other people try to do it, like me? But even though I’ve clicked around below that, gotten to your website from where it is workable to make a donation- how many people figure its a ‘hassle’, or they think, “This isn’t working and I don’t have time to figure out how to do this”. I just want you to get donations for all the work you put into this.
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I really hate when Jewish people are referred to as “like lambs going to the slaughter”. In fact, I resent it. What were these people to do? Most had no choices. They were going to be killed one way or another. Most did not realize exactly what was happening and or were in shock. Also, resistance takes on many forms. Most Jews did not have any weapons, they were corralled up along with their children their parents, treated in the most inhumane ways you could never imagine happening to you. Please do not refer to those who were taken during the Holocaust or any genocide as lambs going to the slaughter.
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Leah what I was referring to was their innocence. I even imply that they had no choice event though they knew what their fate was. Also I make reference to the children and how their parents would have tried desperately to stay positive for the children. I did not mean it in a disrespectful way in fact the opposite, I have the utmost respect for I do not know what I would have reacted.
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