At night, house by house

On April 19, 1943, a group of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the powerful German army that held them captive. Ill-equipped, but willing to lose their lives (which they would lose anyway), they held them off for weeks, employing surprise tactics and urban guerrilla warfare. To prevent the fire from damaging their factories within the ghetto and spreading to the "Aryan corner," the Germans recruited firefighters. One of these firefighters, while saving factories from the flames and letting civilian houses burn, took photographs. When his son found them, these photos and the story went around the world. Now a documentary has been made. 33 photos of the ghetto, which we saw yesterday.

Seeing the photos of children with their hands up, of grandmothers on the ground, of families throwing themselves off balconies to avoid being burned alive (and dying crushed) while the Nazis smiled, one can't help but think of the videos, no different, not at all, of the manhunts in Minnesota. Captured children used as bait to lure their parents out. Screams in the night from desperate women begging their neighbors to close their doors. The shaved heads are the same, the arrogance, those bovine and implacable eyes of the notorious figure who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.

We can't take it anymore: evil is spreading, and we can start repeating that old litany that says that those who do not know history are condemned to, etc. We know it, and it will be repeated as many times as necessary. For all these fearless monsters, the history of the ghetto makes the hair on their arms stand on end with pure adrenaline. We are in such a savage moment in history that you're not even sure, when you're horrified by the Holocaust, that your fellow conversationalists will agree with you. You're afraid, of course, that they'll say: "Yes, but that needs to be qualified." Once again, we find ourselves facing hunters whose pets have a better life and are less afraid than the unfortunate humans they trap at night, house by house.