Holocaust Day

[BearBio]

During my life, I have been fortunate to meet two concentration camp survivors: One, father of a Boy Scout in my troop, survived the Bataan Death March. The other was the mother of my supervisor who survived Auschwitz.

The Holocaust Museum just broadcast a YouTube presentation (televised by an interagency-effort by Federal Agencies) by Halina Silber, an Auschwitz survivor @ age 13! and #16 on the original Schindler's list.

It should be available @ [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBE7lkjQlD4&feature=youtu.be[/ame].

VERY Moving!

 

[Bullseye 2620]

Very moving, indeed. There's not one of us who doesn't owe more than we can ever repay to these survivors.

 

[BearBio]

Required to take 8 hrs EEO/Diversity Training each year. This counted for 1 1/2==better than learning how to fill out a job description!

 

[steveno]

this guy has some really good videos on youtube

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFa7-pC4Wd8[/ame]

 

[Rustyt1953]

If I may. Ruthie's cousin Ritchie, is the Police Chief of Amberly Village, a neighboring community with one of the largest Jewish populations in the country.

Over the years I have come to know and become friends with many folks there including survivors. Some have shown me their tattoos and it was always an unsettling experience. The stories were chilling and have stayed with me.

I appreciate the thread.

 

[Rpg]

My father's law partner escaped from Germany in a piano crate in 1938.

He worked on the Nuremberg trials after the war.

His law practice focused on reparations for the survivors.

I met many of his clients who had concentration camp tattoos.

These folks are almost all gone now, so today they aren't available to remind us what happened and what could still happen.

Everyone should spend a day at the Holocost Museum in Washington. You can hear many of their stories as they related them and learn much much more.

Never Again!

 

[rwsmith]

Maybe some of these people had....

Maybe some of these people had some 'luck' on their side, in that they weren't singled out for immediate elimination, but this type of survivor isn't all chance.

Heard a Bataan survivor say that there were two kinds of people. The ones that wanted to live and the ones that didn't.

I think that just KNOWING that there were people who hated me enough to hunt me down and kill me to make the world better for them would be bad enough.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

The Holocaust is a good example of what happens to people when there is no RKBA.

 

[sheepdawg]

Being the son of a German soldier one of the most sobering experiences I've ever had was shaking the hand of an Auschwitz survivor.

My father was a very accomplished commercial and fine artist. One of the Jewish Temples in Memphis had a memorial book, must have weighed 25 pounds. They needed someone that could hand letter names into the book in a Gothic script. My father was the best around. The first time the Rabbi brought the book to our house my father informed him of his past. The Rabbi said not to worry about it, he understood that not all Germans were bad and that he had the feeling my father was a good man. They became pretty good friends. There were page after page of entrees that included "died in Treblinka", "died in Auschwitz", "died in Bergen-Belsen". Pretty sobering also.

 

[Kurusu]

It was a very dark page on history. Should never be forgotten. And never, and I do mean never, be repeated.

 

[rwsmith]

No real what????

The Holocaust is a good example of what happens to people when there is no RKBA.

RKBA?????

 

[cmort666]

General ignorance about the Holocaust plays into the legitimization of anti-Semitism on the left.

 

[rwsmith]

It's happened enough....

It wasn't an isolated event, just one that his close to home with us. Armenia, Cambodia. And we lovers of freedom managed to dehumanize Native Americans to the point where it seemed to be a great and moral idea to exterminate them.

 

[BearBio]

It wasn't an isolated event, just one that his close to home with us. Armenia, Cambodia. And we lovers of freedom managed to dehumanize Native Americans to the point where it seemed to be a great and moral idea to exterminate them.

And Ireland!

 

[GaryS]

60% of current college students don't know that there ever was such a thing as the "Holocaust".

Sad what passes for history education these days.

Then there are some of us that don't need a special day to remember the Holocaust.

General ignorance about the Holocaust plays into the legitimization of anti-Semitism on the left.

 

[tops]

RKBA?????

Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Larry

 

[cmort666]

60% of current college students don't know that there ever was such a thing as the "Holocaust".

Sad what passes for history education these days.

Then there are some of us that don't need a special day to remember the Holocaust.

Indoctrination has replaced education.

 

[rwsmith]

After watching the video of the tour......

"Abandon hope all ye who enter here."