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Rudolf Mokesch 1903 - 1940 Edit

Born 12.4.1903 in Rabensburg
Died 28.9.1940 in Mauthausen

Biography

You’re going to die.

Maybe you suspect it. Walking in worn out shoes. With bare hands.

[There isn’t much of another option anyway.]

But you don’t know it yet.

 

I know it. I’m watching from a far. Roaming the same streets you have to go down so very soon.

The hackneyed corners of the old barracks.

The muddy paths to the barbwire fences.

 

You’re about to lose it. And as well as I know your story, I don’t know about the details of its outcome.

Maybe, just around the corner there is this guy. With his brightly polished boots, a very neat uniform and just the right amount of bad day behind his back.

Maybe, you’ve been on a long list all along. So, when there is this counting, in the freezing cold, you have to step forward and then you have to take another step, followed by another step till you’re in a very small room pushed and pulled like cattle.

Maybe, it’s the hunger. The cold. The punishment. The estrangement. The work and its freedom.

Maybe, your own hand, because …

You – just – can’t – take – it – anymore.

 

Why? Because someone patched a green triangle on your ugly shirt. That’s all.

That’s everything that matters in here.

 

Jonathan Krupitza

This story, written by Jonathan Krupitza, great nephew of Rudolf Mokesch, marks the beginning of a search for something. Between the concentration camps Dachau and Mauthausen, as well as within the memories of his family.

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