The Saber and Scroll Journal Volume 8, Number 3, Spring 2020 | Page 53

he Nazi Holocaust and the
ession of Jewish Suffering
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(especially in the West), revealing what
occurred inside them.
When Grossman entered the
grounds that constituted Treblinka,
he recorded what he experienced with
such vivid description:
We enter the camp and walk on
the ground of Treblinka...The
earth is throwing out crushed
bones, teeth, clothes, papers. It
does not want to keep secrets
and the objects are climbing out
from the earth, from its unhealing
wounds. Here they are, half
ruined by decay, shirts of the
murdered people, their trousers,
shoes, cigarette cases ... a child’s
shoes with red pompons ... lace
underwear, corsets, bandages.
And a little further on, heaps of
plates and dishes have made their
way to the surface. And further
on—it is as if someone’s hand is
pushing them up into the light,
from the bottomless bulging
earth—emerge the things that
the Germans had tried to bury,
Soviet passports, notebooks with
Bulgarian writing in them, photographs
of children from Warsaw
and Vienna ... a book of poetry,
food ration cards from Germany
.... A terrible smell of putrefaction
hangs over everything,
the smell that neither fire, nor
sun, rains, snow and winds could
dispel .... We walk on ... and suddenly
we stop. Some yellow hair,
wavy, fine and light, glowing
like brass, is trampled into the
earth, and blonde curls next to