country bumpkin
My heart hurts for the people who were held prisoner, tortured, starved and murdered at the hands of the Nazis. Let's all take a moment to reflect.
On January 27 each year, the United Nations (UN) remembers the Holocaust that affected many people of Jewish origin during World War II. This day is called the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. It also commemorates when the Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on January 27, 1945.
Read more here>>http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/un/commemoration-of-holocaust-victims
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jhharlan
Bob/PKB
These photos are from the HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL in Boston Massachusetts. Julie and I happened upon it on our vacation last summer. I have never been so moved to tears at man's inhumanity to fellow man as I was in this place. Each glass "tower" is 4-sided; from floor to the top serial numbers of the prisoners are etched. It is staggering and sobering, much like the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. or the Twin Towers Memorial in New York City, but unfathomable when one considers 6,000,000 men, women, and children compared to (VN) 58,220 US soldiers killed/303,644 injured and (TT) 2,977 killed (including hijackers)/6000+ injured.
The Ottoman Turks killed over 1.5 million Armenians during the genocide 101 years ago, still not acknowledged by the US Government (43 states, however, have issued proclamations) - in order to keep a good NATO relationship.
| 9 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
bulletman
I remembered seeing the television series Holocaust which was disturbing but even more horrifying was the Israeli exhibition of the Holocaust at The Adelaide Uni, The films and baskets of the actual gold teeth and spectacles, plus other things i can't mention the Nazis did to the Jews, Gypsies etc.
| 9 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
The artifacts and displays in this museum are beyond heartbreaking.
I wrote a paper on the second world war in about grade eight. I remember being impacted by the building of a wall around half of a city as punishment for the atrocities. Studying the subject influenced me to study the second world war more and I went to Berlin to see the wall.
What struck me hardest at the time was, with all of those lives taken as if their precious lives were nothing at all, part of the punishment to Germany was giving land and people away and placing up a wall around only half of a city. I just can not and will never figure out why people are actually a commodity or why hatred can drive certain people to think others are of so little value.
And, now look at what mankind is doing. It is mind boggling how we refuse to learn.
The wall was punishment and a form of containing people. I had a friend who delivered bodies to the mass graves in Berlin with a wheel barrow in exchange for chocolate which was the only food he ate as both his parents had died in the war. He lived to see the wall go up and the wall come down.
witchway
We must remember so we never return to these dark times ever again. A friend of mine watched her entire family die, she was spared but it haunts her mind every day she lives.
| 9 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
