"If disaster comes, you will find that all the myths you once cherished are of no use to you. You will see what it is like to live in a society where morality has collapsed, causing all your assumptions and prejudices to crumble before your eyes. And after it's all over, you will watch as, slowly but surely, these harshest of lessons are forgotten as the witnesses pass on and new myths take their place."

(I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I'd like to pass on)[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/05/survived-warsaw-ghetto-wartime-lessons-extremism-europe]

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My original entry is here: Stanisław Aronson. It posted Sun, 16 Sep 2018 09:50:00 +0000.

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