MEMORY LIVES IN A WORLD ECONOMY
"held up the documentation - which make movies - which are recorded the witnesses - because at some point during the story, some idiot could argue that this is not It never happened "is a famous phrase pronounced by the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces General Dwight Eisenhower when he saw the victims in concentration camps. It's been good 65 years since that fateful January 27, 1945 when Soviet troops arrived at the gates of Auschwitz survivors liberating the concentration camps. The victims were wearing clothes with colored triangles, through which she understood why they had been interned: the Jews wore a dress with two overlapping yellow triangles with the word Jude, red for political dissidents, and the red with the letter "S" for English Republicans, purple for Jehovah's Witnesses, green for criminals, brown for Gypsies, and the blue for immigrants, pink for homosexual men and black for the socially disturbed and lesbians.
There are historical documents that describe in detail the special treatment which belonged to the women during the Holocaust: they were subjected to devastating persecution by the National Socialist regime. At that time, being a woman was dangerous, since they could be arrested or imprisoned for almost anything. Independent women were seen in a negative way and, in some cases, compared to lesbians, even if the danger were not the homosexuals, but women, sex for women and independence of women. Husbands could expose their wives for trivial reasons even if not fulfill the duties of good German wife. The real crime was being a woman in a misogynist society, being gay was an aggravating factor, something more. Lots of women interned in concentration camps formed self-help groups; secretly exchanged information, food or clothing. Some women managed to escape, because the SS moved in laundries, in the areas for mending clothes, in the kitchen or cleaning services. The women also had a key role during the Resistance: in the socialist youth movements, Zionist and communist. In Poland, women were employed as couriers to carry information in the ghettos, others fled into the woods of eastern Poland and the Soviet Union, where guerrilla units were formed.
Today, in some else in the world under totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, there are people who are living on their skin conditions very similar to what happened seventy years ago and our task is to remember and to disseminate what has happened in the past without ever our guard down, because only through the memory remains vivid memory.
Sara Fresi - Responsible Citizen Women Italy of Values \u200b\u200b
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