Where Some Children Go, According to Ellie Wiesel
“By the way, a Bulgarian I met lately in Moscow told me about the crimes committed by the Turks and Circassiansin all parts of Bulgaria through fear of a general rising of the Slavs. They nail their prisoners to the fences by the ears, leave them so till morning. And in the morning they hang them. These Turks took pleasure in torturing the children, too; Cutting the unborn child from the mother womb. Imagine a trembling mother with her baby in her arms, a circle of invading Turks around her. They’ve planned a diversion; they pet the baby, laugh to make it laugh. They succeed, the baby laughs. At that moment a Turk points a pistol four inches from the baby’s face. The baby laughs with glee, holds out its little hands to the pistol, and he pulls the trigger in the baby’s face and blows out its brains. Artistic, wasn’t it?” To avoid compassion fatigue, there are a few issues I can ignore in life, and some others I am able to glace away from or simply shrug at. Child abuse...