Brash (Six)

ROT

It hasn't been this bad for a long time. It's hard to keep smiling and pretend that everything is fine, when I feel that I am not only falling apart inside, but also slowly rotting.

GNILOBA

Že dolgo ni bilo tako slabo. Težko je ohraniti nasmeh in se pretvarjati, da je vse v redu, čeprav se počutim, da v sebi ne le razpadam, pač pa tudi počasi gnijem.

GENOCIDE

 /.../Education about the Holocaust is therefore crucial to promote tolerance and understanding. It is important to note here that in the light of current geopolitical events, awareness-raising has clearly not been effective enough. The genocide we are currently witnessing in Gaza is proof that we as a society have not learned much from past events - even those that took place less than a hundred years ago - and that we are always finding new excuses for atrocities and attacks on civilians. Ironically, this time it is the Jewish State of Israel that is the perpetrator of genocide. We must ask ourselves why we are allowing genocide to happen again just a few decades later, even though every year, at the commemorations for the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, politicians repeat the slogan “never again”.

GENOCID

/…/Izobraževanje o holokavstu je tako ključno za spodbujanje strpnosti in razumevanja. Tu je sicer pomembno poudariti, da glede na aktualne geopolitične dogodke ozaveščanje očitno ni bilo dovolj učinkovito. Genocid, ki smo mu trenutno priča v Gazi, je dokaz, da se kot družba iz preteklih dogodkov – tudi teh, ki so se zgodili pred manj kot sto leti – nismo naučili veliko in za grozodejstva ter napade na civiliste vedno najdemo nove izgovore. Ironično je, da je tokrat povzročitelj genocida ravno judovska država Izrael. Vprašati se moramo, zakaj dopuščamo, da se le nekaj desetletji pozneje spet dogaja genocid, čeprav na spominskih slovesnostih ob dnevu osvoboditve koncentracijskega taborišča Auschwitz-Birkenau vsako leto politiki ponavljajo geslo »nikoli več«.

PAIN

Does it hurt? Very much. So much so that I'm almost afraid to touch my own chest, as if it were a living wound. Where does this pain come from? Locally from the chest. And causally? I don't know. Yet. What am I going to do? Nothing, I'll put on a smile and pretend everything's fine.

BOL

Me boli? Zelo. Tako močno, da me je skorajda strah se dotakniti svojih prsi, kot bi bila na tem mestu živa rana. Od kod izvira ta bolečina? Lokacijsko iz prsnega koša. Pa vzročno? Ne vem. Še. Kaj bom naredila? Nič, nadela si bom nasmeh in se pretvarjala, da je vse v redu.