Today is history.
Today will be remembered.
Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day.
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Today is history and you are part of it. Six hundred years ago when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Death, Casimir the Great – so called – told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled. They took hold. They prospered in business, science, education, the arts. With nothing they came and with nothing they flourished. For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. By this evening those six centuries are a rumor. They never happened. Today is history.
– Amon Goeth, Schindler’s List
我愛死了齊格蒙特‧鮑曼(Zygmunt Bauman)對德國對猶太人進行種族屠殺的閱讀 ─ 他認為是現代性(modernity)發展的「登峰之作」─ 是現代性為人類帶來有史以來最大的悲劇。