If This Is a Man by Primo Levi.

• If This Is a Man
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  You who live safe 
  In your warm houses, 
  You who find, returning in the evening, 
  Hot food and friendly faces: 
  Consider if this is a man 
  Who works in the mud, 
  Who does not know peace, 
  Who fights for a scrap of bread, 
  Who dies because of a yes or a no. 
  Consider if this is a woman 
  Without hair and without name, 
  With no more strength to remember, 
  Her eyes empty and her womb cold 
  Like a frog in winter. 
  Meditate that this came about: 
  I commend these words to you. 
  Carve them in your hearts 
  At home, in the street, 
  Going to bed, rising; 
  Repeat them to your children. 
  Or may your house fall apart, 
  May illness impede you, 
  May your children turn their faces from you.

Primo Levi was a prisoner in Auschwitz.

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We often tend to forget what happened in the past. How deeply flawed and entrenched with hatred humanity can be. How the lucky ones take things for granted. How we humans are capable of both love and absolute evil.