Holocaust

Bonnie Surfus (ENG) surfus at chuma.cas.usf.edu
Thu Jun 1 22:04:46 CDT 1995


> 
> One of the wildest sights I ever saw appears in that film.  Wild.  I mean 
> you can't process it.  A stack of blankets.  Loosely woven fibers catch 
> the light and you eventually realize they just might be human hairs (I'm 
> convinced they are.)  The controversial tatooed skin appears also.  I 
> recently heard (I forget where--a pub TV WWI doc. around May 8?) a man 
> say he did not find it completely plausible--that the tatoos were on 
> skin.  He said you couldn't really be sure what the material was--"it 
> could have been skin," he recalled.  His head kept going side to side, 
> just like mine.
> 
> Bonnie
> 
I just read this by accident.  Natch, I meant WWII.



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