{"id":3068,"date":"2013-03-24T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2013\/03\/24\/what-the-world-could-have-been"},"modified":"2020-02-09T09:07:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T16:07:18","slug":"what-the-world-could-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=3068","title":{"rendered":"what the world could have been…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Slowly one enters the former Town Hall encampment that housed the Jewish prisoners of Terezin during World War Two. The building now holds only memories; clothing, artwork, pictures…all that remains from those lost to the Holocaust.\n
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A replicate of a room that would have housed close to one hundred people is shown in exquisite, painful detail. The words ring over and over in your head “all one’s possessions are in a single suitcase”.<\/p>\n

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As you move past the stories of those that were here, paintings from the artists at Terezin showcase the horrible living conditions. I can not imagine painting my own demise, writing my final chapter.<\/p>\n

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A Jewish family, two children and their parents, solemnly pass by the artwork of the lost. I hear the wife utter these words to her husband,<\/p>\n

“We will never know what the world could have been, what contributions have been forever lost….”<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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