Auschwitz fell to the Soviets 75 years ago today, almost two years too late for Czeskawa Kwoka. I posted this about her in 2013:
Let not anyone pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Mill, 1867
Hattip to HappyAcres. The story of the murder of Czeslawa Kwoka has been making the rounds of the internet. Just one of the tens of millions of victims of the attempt by Adolph Hitler seventy years ago to bring to reality his nightmarish vision of the future of humanity.
Kwoka died in the camp in March of 1943.
Let Czeslawa’s memory remind us that evil is ever plentiful in this Vale of Tears and that it is the duty of all decent people to combat it. When good people turn away and forsake this duty, the consequences to the innocent are often horrific.