In the middle of reading In This Hospitable Land by Lynmar Brock, Jr., a book based upon one family's true story of their experiences fleeing their home in Belgium and the Nazis during World War II. The book, like so many that deal with the Jewish experience during WWII, is harrowing. While not as emotionally powerful (yet, at least) as Elie Wiesel's Night, it reminds me much of reading Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay awhile back. You read a passage and feel like you've been punched in the gut. The cruelty of humankind in war is horrendous. The choices that war and survival lead to, and the actions it causes people to contemplate, seem unfathomable.
No matter how I try, I cannot comprehend the evils that our species inflicts on one another.
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