Auschwitz – October 2025

Unfathomable — yet real.

Chaos.
Disorientation.
Confusion.
Confiscation —
of clothing, hair, identity, life.
Tattooed numbers
replace names.

Lies.
Deception.
Arbeit Macht Frei —
“Work will make you free.”

Evidence:
suitcases, shoes,
prayer shawls, phylacteries —
remnants of Jewish faith,
proof of the Nazi magnitude of murder.

Evil.
Zyklon B — poisonous pellets,
stealing 1.1 million lives:
young and old,
disabled and abled —
indiscriminate death.

On the other side:
of barbed wire,
of electric fence,
of the world,
of humanity,
of life.