This was during the height of the immigration ban, when fears of Muslim registries were very real. It was soul-shaking.
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I saw Václavské Náměstí, where the Czech people rebelled against the state. And visited the spot where Jan Palach self-immolated.pic.twitter.com/F1OfP14bSx
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Later, I'd visit Berlin, seeing memorials to the people lost in the Holocaust, people persecuted by Nazis.pic.twitter.com/wFDAg8vXty
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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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They're aptly named. You cannot physically trip over them of course... But they still always tripped me up.
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I have a poster of how my home city Cologne might look in 1000 years from now... I hope the Stolpersteine will still be there.
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