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Brian said (admiringly, I thought), "Did you *write* that story?" I started to answer, when he continued, "Or did you type it?" — from Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life 🌐 ✍️
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I was 18 when I first saw someone with a “prisoner number” inked on their forearm; a tattoo forced on them at the beginning of brutal dehumanization and horrors in the German Nazi concentration camps. I would see many many more, and would hear their stories as survivors of man’s inhumanity to man. 😓

https://www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschwitz-prisoners/prisoner-numbers/ “Prisoner numbers in the system of German Nazi concentration camps The prisoner numbers have become a synonym of dehumanization that struck the deportees of the concentration camp. These numbers were to serve efficient "management" of camps, performed by the SS teams. Within the whole system of "state concentration camps" of Ill Reich, there was no a single rule of ascribing the numbers to the prisoners. Usually, there were subsequent numbers issued for the newly arrived prisoners (as it was in KL Auschwitz). In some camps (e.g. in KL Gusen or KL Buchenwald) the numbers of the deceased were ascribed again. In such cases, one number could belong to one or even three persons. Prisoners transported from one camp to another obtained a new number every time. The number was used instead of last names on every day basis, as the spelling was often ambiguous, causing fuss in the documentation.”
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Les Holt
@lesholt.bsky.social
Brian said (admiringly, I thought), "Did you *write* that story?" I started to answer, when he continued, "Or did you type it?" — from Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life 🌐 ✍️
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