gives us hope that in the conditions of hell in which the Auschwitz prisoners found themselves, we can preserve humanity and do something good. After all, he even chips in some humorous elements here and there. For me, it was amazing that while reading a book about dying people I would smirk from time to time because a kind of wink suddenly appears in this entire horror. Regardless of these circumstances, these people did not succumb to suppression or lose their humanity or sanity. The message here is that if we work together, there is always hope for success. I also think that the last paragraph of the report is very important because it is perhaps a kind of short will that Witold wrote for us.
I have the paragraph with me: “It is not important what I have written so far on these several dozen pages, especially for those who will be reading them only as a sensation, but here I would like to write in such capital letters, which are unfortunately not available on a typewriter, for all those heads which have just water under their beautiful parting and they can perhaps be thankful to their mothers for well-formed skulls, so that water is not running out of their heads." an element of humour slightly appears again, but then, it followed by this deep thought "...let them think deeper about their own lives, let them look around at people and start the battle against falsity, hypocrisy, against interest cleverly and conveniently adjusted for the idea, the truth and even the huge issue, from themselves. ".
K.K.: It compels us to think about not letting ourselves be crammed into some sort of frame prepared for us. Rather than yelling at each other out of emotion, we should sit back and think about what we can do, what we should do and start doing it. Later, we may analyse it much more broadly - where did fascism, Nazism and the Auschwitz camp come from. Where did these ideas, which the Germans of that time so believed in, originate? These people allowed themselves to be driven into such a monstrous act. If we do not apply critical thinking but accept what someone tells us in propaganda, the results may be tragic. You should be independent, think independently and have an internal element of goodness that allows you to follow your direction indicator. For Witold, such an important moral compass was faith, which enabled him to distinguish between good and evil, and at the same time was not excluding, confining... I think that the
Prisoners of the first transport of Poles to Auschwitz n the streets of Tarnów (Photo: Holocaust History Archive - Noordwijk, the Netherlands)