Thanks for that info Captain.Heroin I could refer to the what's happening presently too and a survivor story might be the way to go.
I am currently detoxing from alcohol in to the bargain and on heavy dose of librium which is fucking me up creatively speaking. I'm from Scotland and it's just a pass or fail. I've also to create a slideshow of photographs that will synchronise with my song. I was thinking of even doing an electronic song using sequencer with some spoken word..maybe
If you believe in reincarnation, and really wanted to make people feel for anyone in any death camp run by anyone else, write about a Jewish non-survivor who was reincarnated as a Uyghur in China, only for China to run a "re-education" (genocidal; actively or passively) program, or someone in DPRK who escaped the political prisons, the dehumanizing torture North Koreans suffer is on par or close to what Jewish people went through. It might be worse, I don't know and I would hate to have to compare their situations, relatively. The people in political prisons in DPRK are literally starved to death and given menial tasks, physically beaten, sexually abused and such. Their only nutrition is scavenging for worms, bugs, insects, and many of them die of malnutrition or succumb to terrible parasitic disease like a worm/parasite infestation, Hepatitis B is HUGE over there because they use human excrement as fertilizer for crops. Their crops are radiologically toxic when grown in the mountain range they produce weapons, even the military suffer to the point of deserting their nation.
You could write about a Nazi or DPRK soldier who torture political prisoners, kills them, somewhat on auto-pilot having drank the nationalist kool-aid only to wake up one day and have a never-ending deep pang of guilt.
I don't know how dark or hopeful it needs to be. I would hate to urge you to write an extremely dark piece and then your teacher is like afraid of you for the rest of the semester. You'll have to feel out which direction to take it with.
Raise the best ideas you can think of or have heard to your teacher during their office hours. Ask which one THEY think is best or most PC given that this is a VERY hot-button issue. That's what I would do.
I’ve actially gone to the first concentration camp memorial site, Dachau in Germany. The one people usually know is auschuwitz, but Dachau was the first. I ran global conferences in Austria this past summer and have been there twice. Every year we visit and I was in charge of the trip this last time leading the tour so if you want real photos I’d be happy to send you them and connect you with a Holocaust survivor i had the pleasure of meeting. Her name is Heddy rose, she should be 84 or so now and lost her entire family during the camps.
Thank you. It can be mentally and/or spiritually difficult to witness such acts of brutality and horror as a human being, but we need to know this happened. It's important to look at it directly and address what happened so it never happens again. I'm rather worried about how many people don't want to go to war with DPRK over their dehumanization of their own people. It's horrific.
