FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

Lest We Forget: Auschwitz, Treblinka, Grafeneck (Satis Shroff) It does me good to witness that a Culture of Remembering has sprouted in Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria where the respective museums are doing a great job informing visitors about the World Wars, how people lived and suffered in those terrible days. Young school children are obliged to visit concentration camps, write essays and discuss about these themes. Not a single Abitur class (GCE 'A' level) finishes its final exams without having visited a concentration camp, and discussed about the problems and misery created by the World War I and II, and the National Socialists. Nevertheless, it is scary to feel the fear and anxiety expressed by Hans Sahl (1902-1993) when he wrote: 'More than the onerous task of surviving, my mind is engaged with the thoughts, what'd going to happen to this world that has experienced such things, what will happen to the children who know of the holocaust through h...

ZEITGEISTLYRIK: STOLPERSTEINE (Satis Shroff) (Stolpersteine (brass) with names of Jews killed in Auschwitz) STOLPERSTEIN (Satis Shroff)                                                    On the night of the Reichsprogrom 1938, She went by bicycle in the dark of the night, But a colleague betrayed her. The Nazis arrested her in March 1943. Prison and concentration camp Ravensbrück. The KZ was Hell. They had to suffer the worst of  sadism And gruesome torture every day. A stolperstein in the cobbled streets of Freiburg Reminds you of this day.       * * * (A Jewish mother and her child at Gurs, France) CAMP DE GURS (Satis Shroff) Freiburg r...