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dang · 2020-06-16 · Original thread
It's extremely difficult to look at that suffering. The mind can't handle it, so we put filters between ourselves and it.

I recently read a memoir by a woman who survived Auschwitz and eventually became a psychotherapist in the US. (Hint: if that sounds like Viktor Frankl, it's not by coincidence.) Her story is astonishing. But the chapters about the camp and the death march after it are not easy. I had to pause a lot.

https://www.amazon.com/Choice-Dr-Edith-Eva-Eger/dp/150113079...

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