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bearing witness
November 2009 
2006 Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat
Peacemaker Institute
From Fleet Maull's Blog:
"48 of us, Jews, Christians and Buddhists, either by birth or current practice, Poles, Germans, Israelis, Americans, Tanzanians, came to Oswiecim, Poland for the 11th annual Interfaith Bearing Witness Retreat at Auschwitz-Birkenau, hosted by the Zen Peacemakers, bearing witness to the unspeakable horrors of the holocaust and these Nazi concentration camps and death camps; to the very depths of human shame, humiliation, degradation and suffering; to the virus like cycles of trauma, shame and violence that still plague our human kind; to our own personal suffering, shame and violence and finally to the hope and even joy we can find in entering into this darkness holding each other with loving kindness, compassion and deep community."
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One of the most profound afternoons of my life I spent at the National Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. It was an experience that I will never forget…. and this blog brought back to me the memory. Thank you, I needed to remember to be grateful today and to remember how blessed my life truly is.
With love and light,
Di