I don't know if you were reading my blog when I posted this, and I hope that it isn't disrespectful or hurtful to you. I found this on a Pagan blog I read regularly.
A tarot deck made by a prisoner of Dachau, during his imprisonment.
How could this be disrespectful? Perhaps if it was done by someone who wasn't there (though even then I doubt I would be upset by it), but as art produced by someone who is there, it is sacred.
I don't really see it as tarot, despite the numbering, but it is powerful and beautiful.
And thanks for the link; I wasn't reading you that far back.
Thank you for sharing thismamasays01May 5 2008, 15:36:45 UTC
I was raised Jewish. Both sides of my family have stories of loved ones lost.
I think it's okay to personalize your grief. I think atrocities like the Holocaust happen because people don't personalize. They step back and only see how this is happening to someone else. Someone else's life, someone else's family, someone else's future.
Six million people is hard to fathom. And it's too much grief for any one person to shoulder alone.
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A tarot deck made by a prisoner of Dachau, during his imprisonment.
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/responses/kobe/index.html
Be well,
Leahree
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I don't really see it as tarot, despite the numbering, but it is powerful and beautiful.
And thanks for the link; I wasn't reading you that far back.
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I think it's okay to personalize your grief. I think atrocities like the Holocaust happen because people don't personalize. They step back and only see how this is happening to someone else. Someone else's life, someone else's family, someone else's future.
Six million people is hard to fathom. And it's too much grief for any one person to shoulder alone.
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