Octafish
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Mon Mar-21-05 10:16 AM
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A couple weeks back, my wife and I attended "Holocaust Cantata." The choral work is based on the letters, poems and songs of Jews gathered up by the NAZI.
The performance was truly a most moving experience. As a work of art, it was really quite beautiful to hear and most sobering to consider. As with all Truth, those who were present were changed as a result of the experience.
Between songs, various members of the choir would read passages from letters. In one, a woman described how the NAZIs had separated all the pregnant women from the others. After their babies were delivered, each woman was immediately separated from her children. Then each watched as her child was injected with poison by a long needle directly into their hearts. Then each new mother was likewise killed.
The prisoners who saw what happened. The term they came up with to describe the process was "Needling."
The audience gasped. My wife and I and most everyone there cried.
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