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Limor Regev
On the left, I saw the entrance gate to Birkenau where our train had entered. It would always symbolize the camp for me in the future: the entrance to a manmade hell.
Even the brainwashing that the Germans succumbed to, and the labeling of Jews as subhuman, cannot explain the capability of normal people to murder in cold blood without a shred of human compassion.
In a sense, we had become animals in a human jungle, fighting for our lives with all our mental capacity - the only weapon we had left.
To this day I do not understand why the planes did not bomb Birkenau. This is one of the greatest stains on the Allies’ conduct during the Nazi campaign of genocide of the Jews the Holocaust.
In addition, many of us had lost faith. God was not with us there, and I believe that a great many of the camp inmates found themselves in a particularly severe spiritual crisis, when not only was their physical world shattered, but also their belief in religion.
The freedom we dreamed of had come, but the feeling was very different from what we had imagined. Our struggle for survival, day by day, hour by hour, had robbed us of the ability to feel.
