Reflections on Auschwitz

My reflections after going to Auschwitz won’t be original, but I think reflecting on it in a deliberate way is still valuable. I read the following article of the unspeakable evils of ISIS, on my way to Poland, bringing home the connection between the holocaust and our own times. We must not look away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/middleeast/isis-enshrines-a-theology-of-rape.html

I approached this being aware that I could have been a perpetrator. That the evil, that the nazis did lays in diluted form in me, and given the right conditions could become full grown. It may sound trivial but The Nazis and the SS had…