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01/26/2005 03:44:41 PM · #1 |
Hey all, tomorrow (Thursday) is the 60th anniversary of when the Soviets dismantled Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in Poland.
If you get a chance, look up some of the powerful images from that era.
My friend's grandfather was kept alive at Auschwitz by the sheer luck he could play the violin.
Death Camp museum
Warning: graphic
Children in camp
Message edited by author 2005-01-26 15:50:34. |
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01/26/2005 04:19:24 PM · #2 |
There was a public television (PBS) show on last week that talked about Auschwitz. The speakers included two journalists who had close relatives who had either died or barely survived the death camp. One of them stated that in his opinion there are "no lessons to be learned" from that experience. He believed there was a risk that, if people found lessons there, then it's a short step to actually justifying the holocaust. It was a thought-provoking perspective...
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01/26/2005 05:04:39 PM · #3 |
Ill think I will be visiting there on my trip to Poland this summer.
I say think because im not sure if I can mentally prepare myself to see it. My mom has been and said she never wants to go back again.
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01/26/2005 05:27:56 PM · #4 |
My sister married into a real German family (as opposed to fake lol..but I mean they were all born and raised in Germany). Her husband's grandfather was a member of the Nazi army. They all say they had no idea what was happening until many years later...until they moved to Canada where the media wasn't wholly silenced. They say they never even heard of these camps or even of the SS until after.
My ex-boyfriend's grandma's 6 siblings were shot in their beds by Nazi's (during the Polish invasion). |
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01/26/2005 06:10:48 PM · #5 |
I visited there a few years back, it's very sad. Especially when both of my grandparents who were living in Poland at that time were in similar camps and survived. Good thing they survived or I wouldn't be typing this right now.
Very sad, I wish the world would learn from things like that but all you see in the news is war, war, war....
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01/26/2005 06:36:35 PM · #6 |
I'm sorry, have tried several times to reply here with my thoughts about Auschwitz (amongst others) but have been unable to. I'm a 45 year old man with no relations invloved in the holocaust.
As a UK citizen I'd just like to offer my condolences and apoligise for the human race.
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01/26/2005 08:16:48 PM · #7 |
I am Jewish and of eastern European descent. My grandparents on both sides had emmigrated to the US just prior to the first world war. I did however, have one distant cousin who was killed by the Nazis. I also spent my grade school years in a yeshiva, a religious Jewish school. There we were often exposed to many of the horrors of the holocaust in both story and image. "Never forget" was an often repeated phrase by teachers, religious leaders and family that was also applied to anti-semitism in general.
Some of my teachers had been in the concentration camps and had shown us the identification numbers tattood on their forearms. Many of my fellow students had come from families where their parents had been in concentration camps. What many don't know is that these offspring have emotional problems, even today. One of my teachers that had been in a concentration camp was fired for his loud, and sudden, outbursts and slamming of desks and chairs with his hands to terrorize misbehaving students in to submission. We were in second grade at the time.
I'll never understand how humans can treat other humans with such malice. There are lessons to be learned from the holocaust but none of them could ever justify it. |
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