Gommel: Comment on Ramon's post

I believe it is poignant that Ramon focused primarily on how a person’s individuality is stripped by genocide. As I look at Ramon’s posted picture, it is incomprehensible to imagine going through such injustice.

Every one of the victims is forced to be shaved, to wear the same clothes, eat the same food, be housed in the same place, sleep in the same beds, and perform the same basic manual duties. Exterior signs of individuality are nonexistent. Then the loss of dignity of being stripped in front of everyone destroys the interior individuality. Emotionally they are stripped of their joy, peace and hope. Spiritually many are stripped of their faith. Being stripped from their families, legacies were lost as Ramon reveals through the millions of legacies lost in the Ukraine.

Ramon mentioned how even the perpetrators were stripped of their identity. Solidarity with the Nazi Army is all that mattered. Even their names were not important; just as the names of the victims became unimportant and were replaced with numbers.

Human dignity must be valued by nations and by individuals.