Ride the Storm: Navigating Through Unstable Periods / Katerina Rudko (Belka G...
Maus II by Manas
1. This shows all the prisioners burning together, some living and some
dead. It shows the disregard for life or the lack therof, in the sense that
some of the prisioners were living while the fires were set to them. You
can notice the fear and pain in their faces as they burn to death. If you
read the partially obscured text, you can see that they were burned yet
again, after the fat was removed, so that the Nazis would have more ash
and less prisioner remains to deal with.
This made me think of the ripple effect of torture. The Jews first had to go
through eviction, the camps, and for some death. In this photo, a German
family is also going through torture (on a smaller scale) that the Jews went
through. Everything is destroyed, and there isn't a single building standing,
showing just what happened as an outcome of World War II. After the war,
Holocaust survivors ended up having a better life in other countries, while
Germans and other Europeans had to deal with all of their possesions
(homeland, homes, and for some their families) being destroyed by the war,
showing a reversal of the Nazi hierarchy.