Trujillo had always made it clear that he held racist ideas and considered the black-skinned Haitians to be inferior. "One of Trujillo's most notorious acts was committedĪgainst his island neighbor, Haiti. That is horror enough.Įdwidge Danticat understands this human phenomenon well, and so in The Farming of Bones, her second novel, she takes an enormous Depression-era Haitian tragedy and serves it to her readers in portions so small, but so intensely seasoned, that many will carry around the taste of it for the rest of their lives, and their understanding of Haitians and Dominicans will never be the same.Ī WEB SITE HISTORY of the Dominican Republic describes the event in stark terms: That day will always come from Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, in the image of the mortally wounded soldier who adamantly refused to die until he could find himself a peaceful spot in the woods. Twenty-three thousand? No, my impression of Near the town of Sharpsburg, in Maryland. Wounded or went missing in action along the banks of a quiet little creek called Antietam I once read that on a single day in September in 1862, some 23,000 soldiers were killed, The best of our journalists and novelists have always understood this fact, that the human mind can most easily absorb human tragedy in the smallest of bites. Not a single letter, or a piece of jewelry, or a bit of Theyĭied there, all four of them, though we do not know where, or when, or how. My parents had to leave them in Germany when they escaped across the border. "But you know, of course, that I have no memory of my own grandparents, not at all. That mentioned my grandparents, and she looked at me with a small sadness and said, Understand the horror of the Holocaust if I cannot fathom the number of persons it tookīut once, I was sitting in the kitchen of a friend, talking about an article I had written I have never seen six million people together in one spot, ever, either in person or in photographs. Six million has never had a meaning for me I cannot grasp the number. WHAT DOES IT MEAN that six million Jewish people died in the European Holocaust?
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