The first time I visited Auschwitz, @AniaKiser ,
I refused to take photos. I couldn’t do it, such was the horror that presented itself before our eyes.
I visited it again in 2018 for the first Euromeetup, and I forced myself to take some photos, because we must remember.
In Hiroshima I didn’t want to make the same mistake, but when the young lady arrives I lowered the camera.
Thank you for your words, @abermans , and I agree with you. This is the main reason of my little post: to send a message, exactly the one mentioned by you: “we tend to forget hard lessons from history”.
Yes, we absolutely need to practice tolerance.
We tend to think that we will be better, that we are better, and that the hatred that flows next to us, in so many parts of the world, is something that does not concern us. And then we discover that the war is already here, and we wonder how it is possible. Then these images should make us think about how that war began. The war began long before weapons replaced words. The war began with words, intolerance for those who are “different” from us, ideas of supremacy, the idea that we are on the right side of history, the idea that others are invaders, the infidels, those who they are wrong. And little by little we start to think that “we have to defend ourselves from all this”. And we have already forgotten everything
When you will visit Hiroshima I hope I will be with you, @indahnuria
One of the reasons why I love the Japanese Gardens all around the world is because they are very peaceful, to me they are places for meditation. And it is great that in the one in Wellington they built the Peace Flame.
When you go there, make sure to visit the Castle. You will pass close to several "A-bombed survivor trees . Make sure not to miss them
