{"id":1313,"date":"2015-05-04T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T13:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2015-05-15T01:23:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T01:23:22","slug":"for-the-dead-and-the-living-we-must-bear-witness-elie-wiesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/for-the-dead-and-the-living-we-must-bear-witness-elie-wiesel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFor the dead and the living, we must bear witness.\u201d \u2013 Elie Wiesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"938\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/Adagio-for-Strings-Samuel-Barber.mp3'>Adagio for Strings (Samuel Barber)<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":true,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/Adagio-for-Strings-Samuel-Barber.mp3\",\"type\":\"audio\/mpeg\",\"title\":\"Adagio for Strings (Samuel Barber)\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\\\"Adagio for Strings (Samuel Barber)\\\".\",\"meta\":{\"length_formatted\":\"9:04\"},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1316 alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-21-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"pic 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.wpenginepowered.com\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-21-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.wpenginepowered.com\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-21.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/><\/a>This photo is of Okopowa Street in Warsaw, Poland where the oldest Jewish cemetery remains. The cemetery is 82 acres and contains the remains of approximately a quarter of a million people. Unfortunately, the Nazis burned the cemetery&#8217;s records, so no one really knows how many are actually buried here. When we first entered the cemetery, you don\u2019t really notice it at first, but if you look closer you will see that the short walls in the entrance are Jewish tombstones. The tombstones in this cemetery were not taken by the Nazis to use for roads, as many were, but there are many that were removed and broken. This wall is made up of the broken pieces of tombstones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-11-e1430178422180.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1320 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-11-e1430178422180-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"pic 1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.wpenginepowered.com\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-11-e1430178422180-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/faculty.wpenginepowered.com\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-11-e1430178422180.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This image is of The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It is made up of 2,711 concrete blocks built on a sloping level. I found this very moving because you start out on level ground with you above the stones, but as you enter and go deeper, the stones seem to rise up around you until you are consumed by your surroundings making you feel lost, claustrophobic, and insignificant. You also can\u2019t help but feel as you go deeper into the memorial that there is a graveyard fell to your surroundings<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1317 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"pic 3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.wpenginepowered.com\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/faculty.wpenginepowered.com\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-3.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey put us on a train, and once again we embark on an endless, torturous trip to the unknown in a cattle car. The locomotive rattles down. Stopping for a moment, the brakes screech, and then the pace suddenly picks up again. You can hear the monotonous clanging of the wheels on the iron rails. Hungry and tired after our terrifying sleepless night in the gas chamber \u2013 showers, we lie scrunched together on the dirty floor of the cattle car. We are burning up with thirst. Our legs have turned to wood from lack of exercise. The hard boards press our limbs, which throb with pain. There is no air in the sealed wagon.\u201d <br \/>Rachel Roth \u2013 <em>Here There Is No Why<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1318 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"pic 4\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.wpenginepowered.com\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.wpenginepowered.com\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.wpenginepowered.com\/lori-weintrob\/files\/2015\/04\/pic-4.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whistle of the locomotive sounds, and the train slows down and comes to a sudden violent halt. We jump out of the opened cars and stretch our numb limbs. They line us up in rows of five and march us to a gate topped with a sign that reads \u201cArbeit Macht Frei\u201d \u2013 Work makes You Free. We march through the gate into Dante\u2019s Inferno, which now goes by the name Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birdenau, KLII Birkenau for short.\u201d<br \/>Rachel Roth \u2013 <em>Here There Is No Why<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is of Okopowa Street in Warsaw, Poland where the oldest Jewish cemetery remains. The cemetery is 82 acres and contains the remains of approximately a quarter of a million people. Unfortunately, the Nazis burned the cemetery&#8217;s records, so no one really knows how many are actually buried here. 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