"Do not underestimate the destructive power of lies ... do not ever imagine that your world cannot collapse." Lessons from a Holocaust survivor to our generation, published in 2018 but every bit as relevant. https://t.co/O0wcbp1Nv2
— Julie Vitkovskaya (@Julie_Vit) February 10, 2020
“Finally, do not ever imagine that your world cannot collapse …
Perhaps it is because I was only a child that I did not notice the storm clouds that were gathering, but I believe that many who were older and wiser than me at that time also shared my childlike state.
If disaster comes, you will find that all the myths you once cherished are of no use to you. You will see what it is like to live in a society where morality has collapsed, causing all your assumptions and prejudices to crumble before your eyes. And after it’s all over, you will watch as, slowly but surely, these harshest of lessons are forgotten as the witnesses pass on and new myths take their place.*
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