Thu Dec 9, 2021 – 8:21 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — In January 2020, Auschwitz survivor Marian Turski related the steps that led to the formation of prison camps and the declassification and then near extermination of the Jews.
“Auschwitz did not fall down from the skies,” he states.
One day in the early 1930s a district in Berlin was the well-respected home of Jewish cultural prodigies like Albert Einstein and Nobel prize winner Nelly Sachs. The next day, out of the blue, a sign reading, “Jews must not sit on these benches” appeared.
Turski articulates the thought pattern those citizens began to experience: “You can say, ‘It’s not pleasant. It’s not fair. It’s not right. But after all, there are so many benches around. You can sit somewhere else. Of course, you can.”
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Incrementally, more signs and restrictions for one particular class of people began to appear everywhere.
“Jews are forbidden to enter.”
“Jews must not belong to German singing associations.”
“Non-Aryan children must not play with German children.”
“We only sell bread and food to Jews after 5pm.”
It is a story whose progression of inconveniences feels eerily similar to our own with respect
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