Yesterday was my cleaning day and I found again this book I have about holocaust in which a soldier and a younger brother of a family of 7 Jews write in a diary her experiences in WWII and every episode in a chapter of both diaries. The Jewish guy has a brother that was an artist and tells how he made some paintings when he was in the concentration camp, that makes me fall in some kind of infinite loop this early morning, where at some point I watch this monuments around the world in commemoration to the 15 or 20 millions of humans who lost their lives in a we-are-never-going-to-forget-this-kind-of-thing thing, and I want to share this ones with you where I see brutality, murderer and beautiful art screaming in a prison of silence. Contemplate:
There are several memorials to the Holocaust in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, and this one dedicated to the victims of Buchenwald.
Tel Aviv gay monument in Israel, It consists of three triangles – the symbol of the gay community. One is concrete, and on it appears a explanation of the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust. The second, which is painted on a concrete triangle, is an upside-down triangle painted pink, of the type the Nazis forced homosexuals to wear. The third triangle faces the other two and consists of three pink benches.
The "Fur Das Kind" Kindertransport memorial at Liverpool Street Station, the glass suitcase contained items children took with them on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission conducted by the UK before and during the first months of WWII.
Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Jerusalem. The Hall of names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum contains hundreds of historical photographs, as well as the testimonies collected from survivors.
In San Francisco we can found this man watching throught barbed wire, and behind we can saw a pile of bodies one on top of the other.
I saw this years ago, probably the first who makes me cry every inch, this sombre memorial is found in Miami Beach, it shows an outstretched arm reaching for the skies as hundreds of human figures cling to it and to each other.
This one is located in Vienna, Austria. The outside surfaces of the volume are cast library shelves turned inside out. The spines of the books are facing inwards and are not visible, therefore the titles of the volumes are unknown and the content of the books remains unrevealed. The shelves of the memorial appear to hold endless copies of the same edition, which stand for the vast number of the victims, as well as the concept of Jews as “People of the Book.” The double doors are cast with the panels inside out, and have no doorknobs or handles. They suggest the possibility of coming and going, but do not open.
There are millions of monuments, sculptures and a minimum of common sense than this people put in art to express the injustice suffered by millions of people oppressed by the nazi regime and I am pretty sure that there are gonna be more around because we will never going to forget a genocide against our own specie or the silence of the fallen. Enjoy, read.