Thank you for sharing this, I liked it a lot. It reminds me of something from, I think, Primo Levi that I saw in Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' Haggadah.
Levi describes being one of a bunch of concentration camp prisoners who were left behind as the Nazis retreated. They were too sick to move and, apparently, the Nazis didn't even bother to kill them, just leaving them to die. After a day or so, one prisoner shared his only ration, a crust of bread, with another prisoner, one who was more ill than he. In the camps, no one ever shared bread; rations were so meagre that to share food was to commit suicide. Levi describes this sudden moment of altruistic sharing as the point when they became human beings again instead of the objects the Nazis had treated them as.
Thank you for sharing this, I liked it a lot. It reminds me of something from, I think, Primo Levi that I saw in Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' Haggadah.
Levi describes being one of a bunch of concentration camp prisoners who were left behind as the Nazis retreated. They were too sick to move and, apparently, the Nazis didn't even bother to kill them, just leaving them to die. After a day or so, one prisoner shared his only ration, a crust of bread, with another prisoner, one who was more ill than he. In the camps, no one ever shared bread; rations were so meagre that to share food was to commit suicide. Levi describes this sudden moment of altruistic sharing as the point when they became human beings again instead of the objects the Nazis had treated them as.