Written for https://christinebialczak.com/2026/01/27/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-01-27-2026/
A lonely track, now a forgotten piece of metal, swallows the silence. Birds avoid the building in the west. They understand that humanity lost itself in this time, just as the prisoners feared screaming at the injustice.Empty, with its grey bricks reflecting the pain within. If the walls could share history, they would cry red tears.
Victims arrived by train, and their long journey didn’t end as the soldiers forced them onto the crowded platform. Men in a specific direction, women and children in the other. Those who stumbled, punished by the butt of a pistol or shot as a warning.
Nobody knew what awaited them at the cleansing station, but their stories were told. Without fear.
One of my favourite books is The Lavender Keeper. It is the story of a Jewish family sent to concentration camps. Luc, their eldest son, vows to find those responsible. He carries a posy of seeds and plants them after the war. The French Promise follows the couple when the war ends.
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Books about WW2 are very intense. A lovely post.
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Thank you.
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A totally horrifying event where brutality was unparcelled in human history. Nice post, Diana.
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Thank you. Yes, it was horrifying
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Beautifully written for this anniversary. A horrid bit of history.
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One that should never be repeated 💔
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Too true
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I want to look for that book! I never knew anything about my mom’s family because they were in Poland during the war and all went to concentration camps. My mother had told me that it was an american soldier who was able to get her, her brother, and parents onto a boat to the US in 1950.
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It is good your mum and her brother could get away.
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