{"id":112753,"date":"2016-02-23T06:21:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T06:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/23\/thescavengerandtheherbalist-durnesque-esque\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T08:42:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T08:42:27","slug":"thescavengerandtheherbalist-durnesque-esque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/23\/thescavengerandtheherbalist-durnesque-esque\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-112753 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/23\/thescavengerandtheherbalist-durnesque-esque\/attachment\/112754\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_mnz95ebzv51qf0bl4o1_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_mnz95ebzv51qf0bl4o1_400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_mnz95ebzv51qf0bl4o1_400-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/23\/thescavengerandtheherbalist-durnesque-esque\/attachment\/112755\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_mnz95ebzv51qf0bl4o2_r1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_mnz95ebzv51qf0bl4o2_r1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_mnz95ebzv51qf0bl4o2_r1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thescavengerandtheherbalist.tumblr.com\/post\/139812192149\" target=\"_blank\">thescavengerandtheherbalist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/durnesque-esque.tumblr.com\/post\/138154563783\" target=\"_blank\">durnesque-esque<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/durnesque-esque.tumblr.com\/post\/109350098861\" target=\"_blank\">durnesque-esque<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/durnesque-esque.tumblr.com\/post\/60118621218\" target=\"_blank\">durnesque-esque<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/kuklarusskaya.tumblr.com\/post\/59246275295\" target=\"_blank\">kuklarusskaya<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fuckyeajews.tumblr.com\/post\/59246186776\" target=\"_blank\">fuckyeajews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/posh-lost.tumblr.com\/post\/52303445707\" target=\"_blank\">posh-lost<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Nazis didn\u2019t just kill the Jews; they made use of every inch of them. Women\u2019s hair was shaved off and weaved into blankets for Nazi soldiers. Fat from Jews\u2019 bodies was used to make soap. Gold teeth were pulled out to make gold bars for the <em>Reichsbank<\/em>. 384,000 pairs of men\u2019s shoes were sent to Germany from Auschwitz. 646,000 men\u2019s suits. 184,000 pairs of eyeglasses.<br \/>The most frightening thing is not the gas chambers or the crematoria. It\u2019s the rooms piled to the ceiling with children\u2019s shoes. That gives you have an idea what the Holocaust was. Shoes. Once worn by real people.\u201d &#8211; via jewishhistory.org<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the Holocaust Museum in DC, they have a room just for the shoes and hair of the victims. It\u2019s really startling to see it so up close since it makes you realize the sheer scale of this. The pile of hair in the museum weighs several tons, and bear in mind that this several ton pile of hair is only but a small fraction of all of the horrible things found in the camps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Somewhere in those shoes were the shoes of my great aunts and their children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Same with eyeglasses.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s something I can never, ever forget.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/a4a084af00474e19ae9709594e0f9640\/tumblr_inline_o2zhabwEmG1rvwv5e_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/90dd09caabc8ffa81e10917cdd93a972\/tumblr_inline_o2zhacGXRB1rvwv5e_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/f560f6e2bf1cbcd5f28a62f3077b7071\/tumblr_inline_o2zhacMF2H1rvwv5e_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The above are photos I took at Auschwitz. The shoes and suitcases were each encased in a hallway &#8211; kept behind glass on both sides. And again comprise only a fraction of what the Nazis took.<\/p>\n<p>Now the significance of these collections can not be understated or undermined, the horrors of the Holocaust, the Shoah, are embodied in these piles of stolen clothing and cases.<\/p>\n<p>We look at them and recoil, promising that we\u2019ll never forget and yet the <strong>systematic slaughter of human beings continues around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In different places, for different reasons. Who didn\u2019t learn the lesson? Who still needs to be reached? Who needs to be protected?<\/p>\n<p>Do not forget. Remember and react. Radical evil is not a memory of the past, it is a present and continuous force.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reblogging in honor\u00a0International Holocaust Remembrance Day: 70 year anniversary of the liberation of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jan\/27\/auschwitz-short-history-liberation-concentration-camp-holocaust\" target=\"_blank\">Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/ed8ab9a9cd4db9453b2f90c330714f9f\/tumblr_inline_o2zhacpUX61rvwv5e_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/d744e2248a04e53823b75555dd8474e3\/tumblr_inline_o2zhadHndd1rvwv5e_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s International Holocaust &#8211; Shoah Remembrance day again, but this year the remembrance feels weighted with the fear of repetition. With more and more stories springing up of violence against Jews in Europe and the potential of candidacy for the US president by a proto-Hitleresque Trump who is targeting Muslims and immigrants in the place of Jews.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis history is still so fresh and clearly not relegated to the backs of history books. There is still bonedust intermingled with the dirt at Auschwitz. We cannot forget, we must not repeat. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWE CANNOT FORGET, WE MUST NOT REPEAT\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thescavengerandtheherbalist: durnesque-esque: durnesque-esque: durnesque-esque: kuklarusskaya: fuckyeajews: posh-lost: \u201cThe Nazis didn\u2019t just kill the Jews; they made use of every inch of them. Women\u2019s hair was shaved off and weaved into blankets for Nazi soldiers. Fat from Jews\u2019 bodies was used to make soap. Gold teeth were pulled out to make gold bars for the Reichsbank. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/23\/thescavengerandtheherbalist-durnesque-esque\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[261,7030],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112756,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112753\/revisions\/112756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}