Another one taken from real life … I just finished watching ‘Filip’ … a 2023 Polish film that is an autobiographical story of a young Polish Jew who survived through the war in the most unusual circumstances. The real life writer this was based on was Leopold Tyrmand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_(film)

I know we see and read stories of the war so much and so often now that it almost sounds like some cheap cliche and that these stories no longer really affect us all that much any more … it’s in the distant past that no longer concerns us and it almost feels like they don’t matter any more.

I have several family members who in the First World War, relatives who were in the Second World War and I’ve met and made friends with several European survivors of the Second World War … Polish men and women who survived the war as young men and women, French resisters, Danish survivors who lived through the war as children and teens.

It’s frightening to see and relive the lives of the survivors that had to endure all this.

It’s even more frightening that we are all becoming numb to this history, forgetting it all and believing that it can never possibly happen again.