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Majdanek (KZ Lublin), November 1943. Music is playing throughout the camp over loudspeakers to drown out the sounds of mass murder.
I inquired from prisoners who had been there for some time where my colleague had been sent. "Was he sent to the left side?" "Yes," I replied. "Then you can see him there," I was told. "Where?" A hand pointed to the chimney a few hundred yards off, which was sending a column of flame up into the grey sky of Poland. It dissolved into a sinister cloud of smoke. "That's where your friend is, floating up to Heaven,"
The film comes to an end;
the last frame burns to nought
and your dust
swirls and falls through the light beam…
Majdanek (KZ Lublin), November 1943. Music is playing throughout the camp over loudspeakers to drown out the sounds of mass murder.
I inquired from prisoners who had been there for some time where my colleague had been sent. "Was he sent to the left side?" "Yes," I replied. "Then you can see him there," I was told. "Where?" A hand pointed to the chimney a few hundred yards off, which was sending a column of flame up into the grey sky of Poland. It dissolved into a sinister cloud of smoke. "That's where your friend is, floating up to Heaven,"
The film comes to an end;
the last frame burns to nought
and your dust
swirls and falls through the light beam…