Digital concentration camps

[Gordana Filipovic]

I enclose my letter (for all us) to Mr Piotr Setkiewicz from the Auschwitz Museum Research Center

Dear Mr. Setkiewicz,

Searching the Internet for information about the Auschwitz Museum, I came across your short biography. The fact that as a historian you have a doctorate on the subject of the greatest evil in history (as a conception, as a meaning, as an idea), is a reason for me to express my great respect to you.

I have never visited the Auschwitz Museum. My children are. They told me about the heavy sadness they felt there. I had the opportunity to see an exhibition dedicated to Auschwitz at the War Museum in London and I couldn’t separate myself from the photos of beautiful,skinny faces of children with big, dark eyes. I still remember them.

We were all convinced that the Holocaust and genocide would never happen again in history.   

I do not want to sadden you for facing the fact that your struggle (and many like you, victims and descendants of victims) with the goal not to be forgotten, not to be repeated - failed. I know you know about the existence of digital concentration camps around the world that are school examples of virtual Auschwitz.

I am a targeted individual for 34 years for political reasons. My older son was targeted individual too. He is no longer with us.  As an opponent of the ruling dictatorial regime in our own country, he was “driven” to suicide a year ago.

I have been a member of the Peacepink association since 2018. I discovered most of the information and attitudes by reading the experiences of other victims. That is how I found out that in 2016, the Polish Minister of Defense talked to the victims of psychotronic terrorism in your country (that is absolutely unthinkable in Serbia. High military technology is a taboo subject as well as abuse and torture). That why I think you need to know about the existence of that parallel digital world of suffering and helplessness.

Thanks to Peacepink, I remembered these sentences of the victims about the perpetrators, persecutors and abusers: “Their unethical go beyond the Nazi…”, “They realize the unfulfilled dream of Josef Mengela, torture the body and follow the mind…”.

In the hope that you will be a role model for some future generations who will deal with the suffering of us targeted individuals (some of us say that we are the greatest martyrs and saints in history),

 

I personally wish you all the best!

Gordana Filipovic