A magnificent
full rainbow appeared above
the barbed wire of the once deadly fence,
when 57 people from 8 nations crossed this gate to BirkenAU on
November 3, 2003.
Outside - under the birches, then bare and bleak, since any leaf
would be instantly eaten,
women and children were herded together before being sent to the
close gas-chambers.
Inside - the remnants of Crematorium IV, blown up by the "Sonder-Kommando"
in 1944.
It was at a time, when 400 000 Jews from Hungary were exterminated
within 2 months.
Those who were forced to do " the job " were mostly
Jews from Salonikae in Greece,
who started their life-span of three (!) months "fresh",
i.e. not yet emaciated by hunger.
"If someone refused, the head
of his wife would be knocked into the fire and burnt."
Witnessed and told to me today - 2003_11_28 - by Helena Hammermesh
~~ in Israel.
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"We were
four women in the camp resistance,
Three of us worked in the ammunition factory.
It was the women, who were hanged,
for they had smuggled the materials
to the Sonder-Kommando
for making the bombs.
"Tell the world, Rachel, save Jewish dignity!
We were not sheep dragged to slaughter,
we were human and we were humane."
Already in 1986 I taped Helena's stories
about the small lights in the darkness,
resistance and support for each other,
self-respect and self-determination.
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The
rainbow joins earth and sky ~ merges rain and sun,
and displays multiple, distinct colors of the ONE Light !
It is the sign of the Covenant between YHWH and Noah,
that never again will there be intent to blot out humans.
But there was this intent! There still are such attempts!
"God"
and Wo/Man need to heal, grow, evolve,
towards
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