By Thomas Keneally

To write these things now is to state the commonplaces of history. But to find them out in 1942, to have them break upon you from a June sky, was to suffer a fundamental shock, a derangement in that area of the brain in which stable ideas about humankind and its possibilities are kept. Throughout Europe that summer some millions of people, Oskar among them, and the ghetto dwellers of Cracow too, tortuously adjusted the economies of their souls to the idea of Belzec or of like enclosures in the Polish forests.

(Keneally 1996, 137)

References

Keneally, Thomas. 1996. Schindlers Liste. Edited by Thomas Keneally. N.p.: Omnibus.

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