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"I shall never forger", Norman Lewis from "Story of War Magazine"

Worse. sights followed: "We kept walking and found the remains 
of a white wall.We stopped and again we couldn't believe what we 
were seeing. There were these four figures on the wall and people 
have asked me, 'Are you sure I what you saw?' But we knew. It was 
plain to see  that they were two children and mum and dad. You couldn't  
see the body parts but that's what it must have been - they were vaporized 
on the wall. Talk about man's inhumanity to man." 

Seeing the vaporized family is something that Lewis has struggled 
to forget. "You don't see things like this on brick wafts and it was 
like a very bad photo negative. You could see , it was a boy and 
girl and l would suggest they were between three and five and 
there were  parts of mum and dad. I've moved heaven and earth trying 
to de-see something like that. You're seeing something that 
shouldn't be there but it was