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A mound of ashes leftover from the victims of the Holocaust at Majdanek (a well-preserved concentration camp in Poland) |
From Night-"Knowing all the while that any one of the fields of ashes in Birkenau carries more weight than all the testimonies about Birkenau (Wiesel x)."
These are my ancestors. These are our ancestors. How has humanity come to this moment when people are killed for their heritage? How has the world come to this moment when they remain silent when all that remains of a race are broken people who have to look at their heritage turning into dust? We have to live for our ancestors, to continue their legacies, and to walk in their shoes.
We have a common purpose to make our own decisions in life and find our own life meaning, but we also have the ethical responsibility to keep the legacy of our ancestors going while making our own legacy that we want to leave. They created us; we live because of them but ultimately we live for ourselves. But in the end, we are all simply dust. Eternal dust, because our memories and stories will live forever.
