Teaser Tuesday

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Teaser #1
"Paris was a human ruin. Where were the dogs, the cats, the flies? Where was everything?"

Teaser#2 
"It was part of the mechanism of genocide, to disorientate, slowly destroying any sense of belonging by depriving Jews of what they owned."

I have read many times about the magnificent Art stolen from the Jewish people.  I am reading about this part of History again in Les Parisiennes by Anne Sebba. This time I am struck by a word or two used by the author. One word is "disorientation." Stealing precious Art pieces along with taking families away from neighbors and relatives led to emotions felt during senility or aging. A feeling of not knowing where you were, who you were must have come over them causing great grief.

I should add the other word used by the author, Anne Sebba. This word is "dehumanization."  However, I am glued to the word disorientation. Perhaps, because I have seen people in the throes of senility, dementia and Alzheimer's. Yes, disorientation and dehumanization must unite as one word when change comes too quickly.






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