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November 2007 
2006 Interfaith Bearing Witness Retreat at Auschwitz-Birkenau
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48 of us, Jews, Christians and Buddhists, either by birth or current practice, Poles, Germans, Israelis, Americans, Tanzanians, came to Oswiecim, Poland for the 11th annual Interfaith Bearing Witness Retreat at Auschwitz-Birkenau, hosted by the Zen Peacemakers, bearing witness to the unspeakable horrors of the holocaust and these Nazi concentration camps and death camps; to the very depths of human shame, humiliation, degradation and suffering; to the virus like cycles of trauma, shame and violence that still plague our human kind; to our own personal suffering, shame and violence and finally to the hope and even joy we can find in entering into this darkness holding each other with loving kindness, compassion and deep community. More photos will be posted in my photo gallery here at zaadz.
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