What Ka-Tzetnik Teaches Us

Ka-Tzetnik teaches us that there are horrors,
abscesses which no abhorrers
can lance by means of a description. Pus
infects the people trying to discuss
what happened, overwhelming those who try
explaining the unanswerable why,
recalling truths that are untellable
from memories that are indelible.

Truths that cannot be revealed remain,
quite inexplicable despite the pain
they cause. Those who don’t care about Ka-Tzetniks
ultimately turn into forgetniks,
facilitating danger of relapse
of reinfections that may come, perhaps,
“never again” a hopeful mantra waiting
to be exploded by those who’re still hating.

KZ (pronounced “Ka-Tzet”) is the German acronym for  Konzentrationslager (concentration camp), and in camp slang a Ka-Tzetnik is a prisoner.
In “No, the Israeli Minister of Defense Didn’t Suggest Creating a Concentration Camp in Gaza,”´mosaic.magazine.org, 7/24/25, Philologos (Hillel Halkin) writes:

Neither the term “concentration camp” nor the reality it describes started with the Germany of the 1930s. The term goes back to the 1890s when two countries fighting colonial wars, Spain and England, forced large numbers of civilians to leave their homes for prison-like enclosures so as to prevent them from aiding and sheltering enemy forces. For Spain, the conflict was the 1895–98 Cuban War of Independence, which ended with a Spanish defeat hastened by United States intervention in the Spanish-American War of 1898. In the three years of the fighting, the Spanish army herded an estimated half-million rural Cubans into makeshift housing in fortified spaces so as to deny the rebels all access to them. The physical conditions in these camps were wretched, and roughly a third of their inhabitants are believed to have died of hunger, illness, or other causes.