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Blind Love and Blind Hate
Liron Artzi, a blind participant on the 2012 March of the Living, wrote to her guide dog, Petel (Raspberry), after their experience on the trip.
Dear Petel,
You were with me in the Jewish cemetery, at the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, and in the frozen forest where the shooting pits were found,
at the synagogues, and in Treblinka-Majdanek-Auschwitz.
You were there during all of this and couldn’t speak. But your love for me I felt in every lick, every time I stroked you, every time you came and placed your head on my knees.
Petel, I always say that you are in my heart. This time you entered straight into my soul, you are part of my blood, part of me, forever.
These words were written directly from the heart to a (guide) dog that is one big heart.
Liron
Guide dog Petel licks tears from Liron Artzi’s face after an emotional moment in the former Majdanek Gas Chamber.
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“If you’re confronted by Holocaust deniers, tell them that blind people, accompanied by their service dogs, can ‘see’ and feel the evidence of the Holocaust, even though they are blind,” said survivor Sol Nayman, with tears in his eyes. “But Holocaust deniers are ‘blind’ to the Holocaust, even though they can see with their own eyes.”
Sol Nayman in Treblinka in front of the stone with the name of his destroyed community with a rainbow in the background.