“Le donne di Ravensbrück”

Albumleaf 121: January 30, 2018 (Bologna)

The women of Ravensbrück tell about interminable days spent during the time of quarantine . . . shoveling sand dunes: in a circle, under the July sun, every deportee had to move the sand from her pile to that of her neighbor to the right, in a ring without purpose or end, so that the sand returned from where it came.

–Primo Levi, The Drowned and The Saved