I was alive during the Holocaust. When they started the concentration camps I lived in Canada--saftey--but I moved to Poland because I couldn't stay away. It hurt too much to not be there helping people.
I lived in a ghetto before they came for me. They were taking angels into the camps, angels of death and healing mostly. It killed my friends in the camp. It nearly killed me. By the end of the war, I was going to Fall because I couldn't take it any more. I was determined to, but before I could they liberated the camp. Not being able to do that--not being able to Fall--it... broke me. My mind. They had to have a powerful psychic attempt to repair me, and even when they did... when I healed I started remembering things. Vividly. Faces of people I'd known, the smell of charred bodies... It forced me to remember, but it was so painful I very nearly fell apart again. I don't heal because I don't want to relive that again.
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Re: Gladys
Date: 2009-06-28 05:13 am (UTC)I lived in a ghetto before they came for me. They were taking angels into the camps, angels of death and healing mostly. It killed my friends in the camp. It nearly killed me. By the end of the war, I was going to Fall because I couldn't take it any more. I was determined to, but before I could they liberated the camp. Not being able to do that--not being able to Fall--it... broke me. My mind. They had to have a powerful psychic attempt to repair me, and even when they did... when I healed I started remembering things. Vividly. Faces of people I'd known, the smell of charred bodies... It forced me to remember, but it was so painful I very nearly fell apart again. I don't heal because I don't want to relive that again.