Walking in the dark.

I visited the Rose Castle in the woods high above Oslo. It’s a place where the Norwegian painter Vedbjørn Sand shows in open air his pantings of people (extra) and tells about their lives in Norway WW2. Paintings of and stories about Russian and Serbian prisoners of war in Norway, Norwegian partisans and resistance fighters, German SS soldiers, as well as about the 5 -year old girl Ellinor who was deported to Auschwitz in November 1942 along with 552 Jews, onboard the German ship Donau. She ended her life there. It made a strong impression on me to walk around in the dark reading the tragic stories. It made me think of my 5-year grandchild girl. What have we humans learned from bombing and killing eachother the last hundred years? Nothing. I walked out of the forest in the dark and drove home.