I wanna talk a little bit vulnerably about this path I've taken this year that led me to this place.
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I was in Berlin when the first torch rally happened in Charlottesville. I knew then I couldn't be on the sidelines if it happened again.
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I brought my activism to my community because I walked some of the places in the world where deep evil planted its seeds.
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And I didn't want some future generation to walk through UVA like I walked through Bebelplatz. This is why I act.
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I will visit these sites again, to hold that space in my heart again, to connect with those souls, and hope they know that we fought back.
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If you end up in Cologne, the place to go here is the ELDE-house, the NS documentation center...
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The former GeStaPo HQ that the allies managed to miss when they turned Cologne into 95% rubble. >_>
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The original prison cells in the basement are especially harrowing. And of course the "Stolpersteine" (tripping stones) in front of houses
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I saw those in Prague and Berlin, too. They're without adequate words to describe them.
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I visited Stutthof near Gdansk, Poland. I went with a friend who lives in Gdansk & he tried to "prepare" me for what I would see. ...
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... there was no way to "prepare" to see Gas Chambers, Ovens with some human remains kept at site to honor the dead. The gallows ... and ..
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.. the nice home where the Commander & his family lived, steps away. I was so shaken, I began to cry heavily. I had to excuse myself ....
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... I asked a lady at the front to direct me to a bathroom. She smiled & said, "Go through the Gate of Death and it's on the left" ...
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... well, I just lost it even more. I gathered myself in the restroom. When I came out, my friend just said that reading about ...
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.. what happened just never prepares you for being here. Crying is normal & we never try to stop people from grieving for the lives lost.
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