Beautiful words and one of the few reflections on Holocaust Remembrance Day that I read this year. I'm awed by the wisdom and clarity in these sentences, "If ceremonies of remembrance are to have any value for peace, they must be able to hold these many jarring realities all at the same time. People must be able to mourn their loss without traumatizing future generations and turning them into permanent victims, the stuff of aggressive nationalism and the seed of genocide."
If we continue to live down here during the winter months, you'll have to come and visit, Rachael! This beautiful place inspires much thinking! Thank you for reading and your kind words.
Beautiful words and one of the few reflections on Holocaust Remembrance Day that I read this year. I'm awed by the wisdom and clarity in these sentences, "If ceremonies of remembrance are to have any value for peace, they must be able to hold these many jarring realities all at the same time. People must be able to mourn their loss without traumatizing future generations and turning them into permanent victims, the stuff of aggressive nationalism and the seed of genocide."
If we continue to live down here during the winter months, you'll have to come and visit, Rachael! This beautiful place inspires much thinking! Thank you for reading and your kind words.
Such gorgeous and vivid reflections Julie. I was very moved reading this and could picture each scene in my head, and feel its emotion. Thank you.
Thank you, Chris. This monument never ceases to provoke reflections, which I suppose makes it successful. I walk by it each day.
Unamuno has gone down onto my reading list! As long as this common grief gives way to the universal and not against other groups, I agree with you.