She saw a group of German women…watch with indifferent curiosity on their faces.
August 12, 2007
4:31 pm
henrymunsonjr
Amira Hass, Haunting Images, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Christianity, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust
On a summer day in 1944, my mother was herded from a cattle car along with the rest of its human cargo, which had been transported from Belgrade to the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. She saw a group of German women, some on foot, some on bicycles, slow down as the strange procession went by and watch with indifferent curiosity on their faces. For me, these women became a loathsome symbol of watching from the sidelines, and at an early age I decided that my place was not with the bystanders.
Amira Hass, Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege (New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 1999), 7.
