The Things We Cannot Say

by Kelly Rimmer

Hatred spreads—it doesn’t burn out with time.

people will always hate what is different.”

I knew with absolute certainty that small problems in a country can become immense tragedies when left unchecked. It started small in Germany. It even started small in Poland, long before the occupation. It started with a small group of people harassing and vandalizing and desecrating, and it ended with trainloads

of my countrymen shipped to furnaces and dumped into a river.