Such a beautiful and complex story. Beautiful for your memories of course. Complex because of the crimes committed there against Jews and mankind. The potentiality you mentioned we all have of such great evil. Without trying to add a positive spin, I like -on good days- to think we are like a pendulum, and if we have the potential for such collective evil, then maybe we have potential for incredible collective good.
Side note: couldn’t stop thinking about the similarities of the past of Lithuania during WWII and Argentina in the late 1970s. All that murdering. I was wondering if that was a sort of common ground with your partner, how some things maybe were easier for your partner to understand as well.
Anyway, thank you for sharing your story with us, Giedre.
Pablo