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Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Memories From Darkness : Archaeology Of Repression And Resistance In Latin America by Edited by Pedro Funari Edited by Andres Zarankin Edited by Melissa Salerno
To Write What one Could Not Tell Anyone You who live in all tranquility So warm and comfortable in your houses You who come home at night to find The table laid and friendly faces around you Consider if this is a man He who toils in the mud Who knows no rest Who fights for a crust of bread Who dies for the slightest reason. Consider if this is a woman She who has lost her name and her hair And even the strength to remember Her gaze blank and her bosom chilled Like a frog in winter. Do not forget that this happened No do not forget it: Engrave these words in your heart. Think of them in your home in the street When you sleep when you rise; Repeat them to your children. Or else your house will crumble You will be overcome by illness And your children will turn away from you (Levi 1987:9 the translations is mine). At Auschwitz Filip Muller was assigned to the Sonderkommando. Every day with his fellow prisoners he emptied the gas chambers of their piles of defiled corpses and loaded them into the crematorium furnaces of the extermination camp.show more