The Presidium of Legality and Justice Network Red Rose in San Giorgio del Sannio Campania, stressing how the Town Council did not consider it appropriate to celebrate with the whole community Sangiorgesi Memorial Day (recurrence established by Law No. 211 of 20 July 2000 by the Italian Parliament), as had already happened to April 25 and May 1 last issue to the community the following call:
Red Rose Network Campania wants to celebrate the Memorial Day through an invitation to read.
is not, however, the "usual" book on the Holocaust, concentration camps, Auschwitz ... In
" There are no children. childhood in Auschwitz" by Thomas Geve are a great novelty item and a new food for thought especially for parents who want to explain their children, even children, the Holocaust.
"There are no children" is the very detailed description, through the drawings of a boy, not only the 'architecture and organization of the camps, but also the inner workings of types of work, disciplinary regulations, problems hygiene, nutrition in the concentration camp at Auschwitz.
The drawings of the little boy thirteen are the harsh and terrible realities of the field, that field in which he, more robust than the others, was considered fit for work and for that reason alone was not finished in the gas chambers, where, instead, ended all children and old :"... because they show more of the my age, I was fortunate enough to be considered fit for work. Children under fifteen were sent directly to the gas chamber. Apart from another boy, a gypsy named Jendros, then I was the youngest of the 18,000 inmates in Auschwitz I. I had the serial number 127003 ... After the evacuation of Auschwitz I was in the Gross-Rosen, in January 1945, and then to Buchenwald, where I was liberated April 11, 1945. Before that day I had never known freedom ... "
designs sadly Thomas synthesize the themes of a desperate survival: the rows of barracks and train paradigm of torture, the pattern of the gas chambers in which they will die all the other kids, the barbed wire that is at once a symbol of imprisonment and powerlessness, sewers and illusory dream of an improbable escape, torture, hangings, but also hunting for lice, punctuated by daily work schedules, fabric markers that distinguished inmates (Jews, Gypsies, political prisoners and so on), bracelets for different tasks (eg, Kapos, head of the block), the infirmary, where people were operated on without anesthesia, and from which came out barbaric screams, and even brothel with women forced to serve in the military. These designs will
Thomas did during his convalescence that followed his release from Auschwitz: "I was severely debilitated - writes in the introduction - and had lost her toenails to the friction against the wooden clogs and malnutrition. Too shabby to leave my cabin, block 29, the German anti-fascists of the prisoners, stayed there over a month after the liberation of the camp. It was then that I performed a series of seventy miniature drawings, in color, the size of a postcard, to illustrate different aspects of life in a concentration camp. I made them primarily with the intention of telling my father the situation as it was really was .
designs of Thomas today tell us, and we atraverso of our children, childhood stolen, the experience a boy and in memory of every particular finds the strength to survive in hell, until the liberation, which is well designed, such as entering a "new world".
Since those days of 1945 Thomas Geve he never drew.
Network Red Rose makes an urgent appeal to parents because they do not expect to talk about these things in school and why not consider these issues too raw and hard for children: it is true, it is difficult to speak of barbarism, death, terror and persecution children, especially to children, but you can not pass and do not tell them what we do not want to happen again and especially you can not delegate this task to others!
E 'important, however, explain these things with the words that they know, told in story form, perhaps taking its cue from the Diary of Anne Frank or ldal film "Life is Beautiful", browse them with the designs of Thomas Geve, read together with "The Star of Esther", a comic , published in Holland just the Anne Frank House, which recounts the memories of a Jewish woman, now elderly, who tells of his flight to Holland to escape the concentration camps ... or, more smplicemente, talk to them of how negative the fruits of hatred, any kind of hatred for human life and that, instead, are positive fruits friendly living, trying to develop in children, by virtue of the comparison between the two a critical consciousness on this issue.
The memory that we have a duty to the dead and the living, to learn, to know, to choose and implement the daily life of justice and tolerance.
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