The emaciated young Jewish woman — unwashed and with head shaven — was placed on a regular commuter train upon her liberation from a Nazi concentration camp. Ordinary commuters gathered ‘round and asked if she’d just “come from the insane asylum.”
She answered no and described atrocities she and untold other captives had suffered at the hands of their own German government, behind the walls and barbed wire of hellish “camps.”
Her incredulous audience figured they had guessed right the first time. Decades later, the woman related this experience in a televised interview — the memory of which endures as if my most important history lesson.
Indeed, today, the messenger on the train would be branded a “conspiracy theorist.”
Ann Reed
Orange