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Today is the Giornata della Memoria (remembrance day) in Italy, in memory of those massacred in Nazi - Fascist concentration camps in WII. If you can, take some time to read some of Italian Jewish Chemist and WII Survivor Primo Levi’s work. I found a website with a few of his pieces, here’s the link: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4187.Primo_Levi.

“You who live safe 
In your warm houses, 
You who find warm food 
And friendly faces when you return home. 
Consider if this is a man 
Who works in mud, 
Who knows no peace, 
Who fights for a crust of bread, 
Who dies by a yes or no. 
Consider if this is a woman 
Without hair, without name, 
Without the strength to remember, 
Empty are her eyes, cold her womb, 
Like a frog in winter. 
Never forget that this has happened. 
Remember these words. 
Engrave them in your hearts, 
When at home or in the street, 
When lying down, when getting up. 
Repeat them to your children. 
Or may your houses be destroyed, 
May illness strike you down, 
May your offspring turn their faces from you.” 
― Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

Never Forget. 13 Million.