Holocaust
I have never seen "Schindler's List" or much at all about the Holocaust, in fact in a way if I am being truthful I could admit that I have avoided learning about it, aside from studying hostory in school and seeing tv shows such as "Band of Brothers", I know facts and details about what happened and yet I have always avoided seeing any visual evidence. While I know it is real I think I just do not want to see such terrible things.
As I may have mentioned earlier I will be going to the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland this summer for the first time. In an effort to prepare myself I bought and read Elie Weisel's "Night" yesterday.
I have heard from my wife and her family some of the horrors of the Holocaust but when learning about such cruelty and utter evil I keep finding myself with not only an emotional reaction but also with asking "Why?" "Why did this happen?"
One of the thoughts I had which I sturuggle to reconcile is how not only the Nazis but the majority of the German citizens allowed this to happen, and in addition, when confronted with evidence about the mass killings of Jews both Great Britian and the United States firstly denied it was happening and secondly when asked to bomb concentration camps to destroy them and stop the genocide they refused. Unbelievable.
In addition to "Night" I also read Weisel's acceptance speech when he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his book and he concluded by imploring the world to never again allow genocide to occur, and yet not only is it happening even right now as I type this but it has been going on. Serbia, Rwanda, I doubt I can ever accept the inaction to stop this.
So I know I will find it very very troubling, emotional and very much thought provoking to walk around and see Auschwitz where 1.5 million Polish Jews were killed either by gas or by burning in the creamatorium, but we must honor the dead and remember the past.
One thing I have never ever forgotten is when I met my father-in-law in Poland about 11 years ago for the first time I heard a story about how when he was a little boy he watched the Nazi take babies and kill them by bashing them into brick walls. How can anyone get memories like that away from their eyes?
As I may have mentioned earlier I will be going to the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland this summer for the first time. In an effort to prepare myself I bought and read Elie Weisel's "Night" yesterday.
I have heard from my wife and her family some of the horrors of the Holocaust but when learning about such cruelty and utter evil I keep finding myself with not only an emotional reaction but also with asking "Why?" "Why did this happen?"
One of the thoughts I had which I sturuggle to reconcile is how not only the Nazis but the majority of the German citizens allowed this to happen, and in addition, when confronted with evidence about the mass killings of Jews both Great Britian and the United States firstly denied it was happening and secondly when asked to bomb concentration camps to destroy them and stop the genocide they refused. Unbelievable.
In addition to "Night" I also read Weisel's acceptance speech when he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his book and he concluded by imploring the world to never again allow genocide to occur, and yet not only is it happening even right now as I type this but it has been going on. Serbia, Rwanda, I doubt I can ever accept the inaction to stop this.
So I know I will find it very very troubling, emotional and very much thought provoking to walk around and see Auschwitz where 1.5 million Polish Jews were killed either by gas or by burning in the creamatorium, but we must honor the dead and remember the past.
One thing I have never ever forgotten is when I met my father-in-law in Poland about 11 years ago for the first time I heard a story about how when he was a little boy he watched the Nazi take babies and kill them by bashing them into brick walls. How can anyone get memories like that away from their eyes?
posted by CW at 7:09 AM
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There was no holocaust. Stop listening to the liberals. Our Lord and Savior George W. Bush has openly proclaimed that it never happened. Ergo, it did not.
Get you head out of your liberal butt and get with the program.
JEB BUSH IN 2008! THE BUSH DYNASTY MUST CONTINUE INTO 2016!
To me anyone who denies the Holocaust is both profoundly uneducated and unwilling to seek the truth: there is simply too much evidence in all forms - eyewitness, forensic, and written - to even begin to question it. Granted, the most important question - WHY? - is basically unanswered to this day.
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