{"id":14048,"date":"2017-12-13T12:37:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=14048"},"modified":"2017-12-14T21:45:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T03:45:09","slug":"human-metonymy-a-tour-guide-through-i-and-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/14048","title":{"rendered":"Human Metonymy: A Tour Guide through I and II"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sky is seething<\/span>
\n and it starts<\/span>
\n to drizzle.<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201cFor the first two years, prisoners were Polish.\u201d<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201cHere you can see real human ashes.\u201d<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201cThe average life of a woman was 3-4 months.\u201d<\/span>
\n Mid-July. Humid.<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201c1 crematorium was inefficient.\u201d<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201cA man lasted 8 months to a year.\u201d<\/span>
\n There are children<\/span>
\n everywhere.<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201c1.1 million Jews deported, 90% died.\u201d<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201c1.5 million visitors come to hear this every year. Can you imagine?\u201d<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201cAuschwitz II-Birkenau is 20 times bigger. Not brick, but wood.\u201d<\/span>
\n Headphones are not<\/span>
\n just available.<\/span>
\n They\u2019re required.<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201c7 villages leveled to the ground so the camp could be built.\u201d<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201cEstablished with the goal of killing 90 thousand people at once.\u201d<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201cIn our collection, there are more than 100,000 shoes.\u201d<\/span>
\n Someone<\/span>
\n is mowing the lawn.<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201cNo pictures allowed. Only in this block.\u201d<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201cHow much do you think is here?\u201d<\/span>
\n [_______________________<\/span> ]<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201c2 tons of hair. 40 thousand people.\u201d<\/span>
\n A guard walks by<\/span>
\n under a black umbrella.<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201cThis is a real train car.\u201d<\/span>
\n A woman struggles<\/span>
\n to push a baby stroller<\/span>
\n across wet mulch.<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201cOf course we can go inside the gas chamber.\u201d<\/span>
\n Bicycle baskets, wicker<\/span>
\n and full of flowers pass by<\/span>
\n along the other side<\/span>
\n of the barbed wire.<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201cDo you think they are real?\u201d<\/span>
\n [_______________________<\/span> ]<\/span>
\n __________________________<\/span>\u201cThese scratches were made by tourists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

JULIA KOLCHINSKY DASBACH<\/a><\/h6>\n
<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sky is seething and it starts to drizzle. __________________________\u201cFor the first two years, prisoners were Polish.\u201d __________________________\u201cHere you can see real human ashes.\u201d __________________________\u201cThe average life of a woman was 3-4 months.\u201d Mid-July. Humid. __________________________\u201c1 crematorium was inefficient.\u201d __________________________\u201cA man lasted 8 months to a year.\u201d There are children everywhere. __________________________\u201c1.1 million Jews deported, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[54],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3EA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14127,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions\/14127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}