Auschwitz, 70 years on.

Dr Anne visited Auschwitz in the autumn of 2014. A few nights ago, there was an amazing commemoration from Auschwitz.  

The programme took an Austrian Jew from Auschwitz Birkenau who went to Israel.  She was troubled. She passed the troubles to her son. Her way of coming to terms with her issues was as a poet.   

A Warsaw Jew from Auschwitz had that 'something' other people don't have. He focused on the 'sparks' when in the camp and lived the routine.  His mum was in the woman's section and they used to shout to each other over the barbed wire. They met up after release and went to Israel together then America.  He remembered his dad who died in the Warsaw Ghetto and achieved for him.   

There was a gypsy who was in the camp with his parents.  The gypsies were put in huts as families, allowed to write to their families about how good it was for propaganda then divided up and exterminated.  This guy was troubled.  He had a dream that a woman with long white nails sat on his chest stabbing him. 

Dr Anne was pleased to see they interviewed a non Jew.  It was about a young Polish non Jew who was taken to the Auschwitz Camp. He was taken to house 11and tried as someone who helped others escape.  He somehow escaped death.  A German guard spoke to him as he went to work in the factory saying telling him who much he hated the things that were being done to young folk. That was enough to give him his Damascus moment.  He went to uni in Krackow to train as a Doctor. He wouldn't become a member of the Communist part post war so he was put into the army in the north of Poland away from his wife and child. After 6 years he returned to Krackow to practice as a GP.  His house and surgery was close to Auschvitz.  His face showed the peace that passes all understanding.  

Having been there each scenario meant something very special.