Infusion of Dust

“Once we hear that candies will be distributed at the market shop. Immediately we line up. A long queue of chilled and starving children. It’s afternoon. Dusk falls. We stand in the cold all evening, night, and into the next day. We stand huddled together, embracing to warm ourselves even a little. To avoid freezing. Finally, the shop opens. But instead of candies, each of us receives an empty, metal tin from lozenges. Where the candies disappeared, who took them, I do not know. Weak, stiffened from the cold, yet at this moment I carry my prize home happily. It’s valuable because there’s sugar residue on the inner wall of the tin. Now mother heats water and pours it into the tin. We have a hot, sweet drink. Our only nourishment.”

INGREDIENTS:

residue from lozenges
hot water

INSTRUCTIONS:

Pour hot water into the tins with residue from lozenges where it remains. Drink as quickly as possible.

Holocaust is an annihilation that everyone has heard of. 6 million lives simply wiped out. Since the Nazis came to power in 1933, through the duration of the war, various methods were employed to eliminate an entire nation. Systematic and almost industrial-scale killing on an unimaginable level, mainly carried out in the occupied Polish lands by the Third Reich, using various forms of weapons, often through starvation. It was a planned, bureaucratically organized, and state-funded process of murder, based on pseudo-scientific, eugenic ideas of a “superior race”. Starvation deaths – planned and aimed at specific groups, yet affecting virtually everyone, from the imprisoned in camps and ghettos to the occupied population, even the soldiers themselves.

*”The Polish Bush” by Ryszard Kapuściński