{"id":1046,"date":"2019-01-06T01:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T01:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2020-03-08T03:10:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T03:10:20","slug":"bearing-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/06\/bearing-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearing Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJe vais vous raconter une histoire, sans interpr\u00e9tation. Je vous laisse faire les liens\u00a0:
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I am going to tell you a story without interpretation. I will let you make the connections:
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\nJe m\u2019appelle \u00c9tienne Harnad; je suis professeur de sciences cognitives \u00e0 l\u2019UQ\u00c0M et \u00e0 McGill
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My name is Stevan Harnad; I am a professor of cognitive science at UQ\u00c0M and McGill
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\nJe suis n\u00e9 en hongrie, un pays \u00e0 cot\u00e9 de la Slov\u00e9nie, ou sont n\u00e9s les parents de Anita Krajnc.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I was born in Hungary, a country bordering Slovenia, where Anita Krajnc<\/a>\u2019s parents were born.<\/b><\/p>\n

Je suis Juif Hongrois. La plupart de ma famille fut d\u00e9port\u00e9e et abattue par les nazis de la Hongrie et de l’Allemagne.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I am a Hungarian Jew. Most of my family was deported and slaughtered by the nazis of Hungary and Germany.<\/b><\/p>\n

Pendant la deuxi\u00e8me guerre mondiale, mes parents se cacherent sous des faux noms et des faux passeports dans la ville de Rimasz\u00e9cs.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0During WW II my parents hid under false names and passports in the town of Rimasz\u00e9cs.
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\nIls \u00e9taient les t\u00e9moins impuissants de la d\u00e9portation de tous les juifs de Rimasz\u00e9cs aux camps de mort \u00e0 Auschwitz et Treblinka.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They were the helpless witnesses to the deportation of all the Rimasz\u00e9cs Jews to the death camps of Auschwitz and Treblinka<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Les victimes \u00e9taient rassembl\u00e9es dans les b\u00e9taill\u00e8res par les gendarmes de Rimasz\u00e9cs comme si elles n\u2019\u00e9taient que des b\u00e9stiaux \u2013 les b\u00e9taill\u00e8res, \u00ab comme si elles n\u2019\u00e9taient que des b\u00e9stiaux. \u00bb<\/i>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The victims were herded into cattle cars by the gendarmes of Rimasz\u00e9cs as if they were nothing but cattle \u2013 “cattle cars, as if they were nothing but cattle”<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Quand quelque citoyens de Rimasz\u00e9cs, parmi eux ma m\u00e8re, enceinte avec moi, cherchaient \u00e0 leur donner de l\u2019eau, les gendarmes les ont repouss\u00e9s avec des menaces de les emprisonner.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0When some citizens of Rimasz\u00e9cs, among them my mother, pregnant with me, tried to give them water, the gendarmes drove them back with threats of imprisonment.
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\n\u00c0 la lib\u00e9ration de Rimasz\u00e9cs par l\u2019arm\u00e9e Russe, mon p\u00e8re fut d\u00e9sign\u00e9 gouverneur pro interim de Rimasz\u00e9cs
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0At the liberation of Rimasz\u00e9cs by the Russian army, my father was designated interim governor of Rimasz\u00e9cs.<\/b><\/p>\n

Il a pu faire d\u00e9porter le chef des gendarmes en Sib\u00e9rie, mais pas avant de lui avoir accord\u00e9 une gifle qui ne pouvait pas exprimer toutes les horreurs qu\u2019il avait d\u00fb t\u00e9moigner, impuissant, et que les victimes ont d\u00fb subir, sans voix, sans espoir, sans cl\u00e9mence, sans sursis
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He was able to have the chief of the gendarmes deported to Siberia, but not before giving him a slap that was powerless to express all the horrors he had had to witness, helplessly, and that the victims had had to undergo, without voice, without hope, without mercy, without reprieve.
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\nJe suis fier de vous pr\u00e9senter Anita Krajnc<\/a> de Toronto Pig Save….
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I am proud to present to you Anita Krajnc<\/a> of Toronto Pig Save…<\/b><\/p>\n