Arwenn said:
Just watched this too, & cried. It hurts to watch the depravity of these 'people' that could do this to other humans. I am sure many many other horrors and atrocities were committed and not ever reported a-lá-CiA-torture-report. The camps weren't about killing, they were about torture, pain, and slow gruesome deaths. I am sure rape was rampant too. All I can say, I am glad the resolution was what it was. It was enough.
Yeah, I had to take a break, twice and images from Ukraine and Gaza came to me.
I started to think those who were just executed with a bullet were the lucky ones, the people in the camps had to face with torture, starvation and humiliation
on a daily basis.
I have a dear friend, Tom who is 90 year old and he was just finished the Music Academy of Budapest when he was taken to a local internal camp in Hungary.
There were a number of them, I don't know exactly how many.
Before the entire camp were taken to Auschwitz, he escaped when they were marching back from working on the railroads.
They had only 2-3 soldiers with hundreds of people. He managed to slip out of line to the forest and hiding for 24 hrs.
Then he went back to Budapest but friends told him to go because it's too dangerous to stay, considering of the anti-Jewish laws, besides people were starving already, food was scarce.
His friend told him the only way to escape to go to south where the Red Army approached already.
Then he went south toward Szeged staying with good people on a farm in near village and they gave him food and clothing.
Then the Red Army came, he hid with the peasants in a basement showing a white cloth to the soviet soldiers, whom took over the house, food and every possessions.
There was a piano in the Landlord's house and they discovered he is a brilliant piano player.
Tom played Tchaikovsky, "Moskovskie vechernya" and everything Russian music he can remember.
They liked him.
Although they always made him taste the food first, make sure the villagers didn't try to poisoning them.
However one day 2 kozaks took him to the end of the village and he thought: "This is it, They will kill me."
But they told him go.
When I saw the movie: "The Pianist" I thought of Tom, bless his heart.