This probably lead to health issues and trauma for the rest of this poor woman's life. Where I grew up in Queens, there was a Polish woman who lived on our street who was a survivor. She would show us her tattoo but never talked about her experiences. She was an alcoholic and there were times where she would run outside and yell things in Polish late at night. My grandmother (who we lived with) and a friend of hers who lived across the street would go calm her down and get her inside. I can't imagine the kinds of horrors she must have witnessed.
It's the generational trauma too. Imagine what she passed onto her kids and their kids through absolutely no fault of her own but because of the horrors she saw. Nothing can compare to that like.
Years ago I read a book called something like "Did I survive the camps for this" about the children of parents who'd been in concentration and work camps under Nazi control and the trauma seemed never ending.
Does anyone truly survive something like that? Even if you don't die, the person you were is completely gone.
这种事儿真有人能完全“幸存”吗?就算命保住了,以前的那个自己也已经彻底没了。
AlternativeAcademia47 赞2025/4/10
Yeah, I don’t remember where it was, maybe something by Jonathan Safaran Foer; but someone writing about people liberated from the camps said that they had a 100% mortality rate because no one who went into them came out again. Even the ones who walked out weren’t the same people as they were when they walked in, trajectories of lives completely changed or destroyed.
Yeah! The trauma passes down into your genes. It's fascinating.
没错!创伤甚至会遗传到基因里,真的挺玄乎的。
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Epigenetics is fascinating. I hope we will find clinical solutions to “break the cycle” of generational trauma. Those we have now are woefully inadequate for the traumas humanity seems to hand out in abundance.
I read of studies of indigenous people in the US and maybe Canada. Younger generations were monitored for physical responses, and their behavior was observed... And many showed markers for intense fear reactions upon hearing slurs they had never themselves heard, of course control words were used as well. Heartbreaking to think of.
Maus I and II should be required reading for everybody. Incredible graphic novel written by Art Spiegalman, the son of Holocaust survivors. It covers both the intense trauma that occurred in the camps and the generational trauma that was passed down because of it.
The troops who liberated the camps had to be told not to feed them because they could kill them. Their first instinct was to just hand over all the food they could get their hands on, but the medics made them stop because they were doing more harm than good
The mind boggles. Is there no new low this man won't stoop to?
简直没法理解。这家伙难道就没有下限吗?
Macqt27 赞2025/4/9
We have pictures, videos, and testimonies to the things she witnessed. Don’t need to imagine it.
关于她见证过的一切,我们有照片、有视频,还有证词。根本不需要去想象。
InEenEmmer50 赞2025/4/9
You know how people aways say that seeing the mona lisa in person is so much more impressive than a high res photo on a big screen or a big print out? I can imagine the same for the horrors of the camps. Yes, there are pictures, videos and stories about what happened there. But they are stories that we can disassociate from. If you’ve seen it in person or, even worse, was victim of it, it is your reality. There is no way to disassociate from it. Those things will hunt you your whole life long, even if you had a perfectly good life after it.
There’s an incredible doc from about a woman who survived Auschwitz Birkenau as a teenager who lied about her age, then went back to see the camps decades later as an adult. She said that her ability to dissociate is precisely what allowed her to survive the camps and thrive after liberation. She’s still alive today and her name is Kitty Hart Moxon. After her first visit back to the camp area, she said it took her weeks to re-repress her memories and enable her to carry on with her day-to-day life. The whole thing is free on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Dntryh_9o8Y?si=uFnsxTU4QTt0hfD8
If you haven’t seen Schindler’s List or The Pianist I’d highly suggest both. The imagery and setting are startling, it’s important to know the gory reality of our past so we don’t repeat it again.
如果你还没看过《辛德勒的名单》或《钢琴家》,我强烈推荐这两部。
Alternative_Dot_102637 赞2025/4/9
If you have the ability, travel to Poland see the camps for yourself. I'm glad I visited Auschwitz and Birkenau when I was 18. Sobering, sombering, but should be a necessity to visit. Before we do it again.
I really hope she lived. So many liberated from the camps died shortly after.
真希望她能活下来。当时从集中营解放出来的那么多人,没过多久就去世了。
Clemen1157 赞2025/4/9
Including Viktor Frankl's first wife. His book, Man's Search for Meaning, is haunting and goes into depth about the horrors lived in camp
包括维克多·弗兰克尔(Viktor Frankl)的第一任妻子。他的那本《活出意义来》(Man's Search for Meaning)让人久久难以释怀,深入剖析了集中营里的恐怖。
Old-Information331176 赞2025/4/9
#OP is a bot.
#楼主是机器人。
BANALSHAMIN58 赞2025/4/9
Reddit is just bots and fascist AI mods at this point
说到底,现在的红迪(Reddit)全是机器人和法西斯AI版主。
Isha_Harris66 赞2025/4/9
Oh that poor baby
天哪,那个可怜的孩子。
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It’s sickening how evil, greedy and selfish humans can be
人类怎么能坏、贪婪且自私到这种地步,真是恶心。
rangitoto03034 赞2025/4/9
And today Trump said “Nazis treated Jewish prisoner with love”. Unbelievable
结果今天特朗普居然说“纳粹是用爱对待犹太囚犯的”。简直不可理喻。
Super_Sell_320131 赞2025/4/10
My neighbour as a kid, Iggy, survived the holocaust. He told me stories of nothing to eat but rotten boiled turnips and cut up pieces of leather belts. He refused to eat turnips the rest of his life
It’s honestly so vile the way people nowadays love to talk about how nazis are coming back in America. Seeing images like this should remind the holocaust deniers who think Nazism is alive and well how fucking far out of touch from reality they are.
And what have we learned? Absolutely nothing. History is repeating itself and we’re wilfully ‘ignorant’.
我们到底学到了什么?什么都没学到。历史正在重演,而我们都在装聋作哑。
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israeli finance minister: not one grain of wheat to gaza. History rhymes.
以色列财政部长:不给加沙运一粒小麦。
MetalDeathMetal3 赞2025/4/10
Humans are very cruel to each other, it's terrifying.
人类对同类真是残忍得可怕。
Visible-Management633 赞2025/4/9
My grandmother, her two sisters and their mother were imprisoned at Dachau and were there when it was liberated. I remember her telling me that the allies fed them sticks of plain butter to flatten them up, and later they were told they would likely die young. She lived to be 99! She also told me that due to being almost starved, then eating plain butter until she was nearly sick, butter was the only food she didn't like.
My grandfather was there for the liberation of Dachau. He was drafted into the army as an "old man" for the time, 33 years old, but was a truck mechanic, so very needed. This picture is just the tiniest example of why he came home smoking like a chimney and drinking like a fish. The sleepless nights, the nightmares...they haunted him till the day he passed. He could drink away the images for a little while, but the smell...the smell of death by torture he could never get out of his mind. Age to think Dachau was among the least of the horror shows found inside the camps. Aushwitz was much worse, as was Treblinka. (Through the Nazis destroyed the latter before it could be liberated)
Our current government is steps away from doing this to American citizens. Stop being asleep.
我们现在的政府距离对本国公民干出这种事儿就差一步之遥了。都清醒点吧,别再睡了。
Lonely_Ad62992 赞2025/4/10
I did a tour of this camp in 2013. It was an experience I’ll never forget. It impacted me tremendously to see how awful it must have been for these poor prisoners.