Holocaust remembrance Day

I have no words, but I love the image.

The flower is so symbolic of, both haunting and beautiful.

It speaks of the event still being alive... there's still pain, sorrow, and anger, and the flower prompts one to pause and remember to never forget.

Thank you for posting this, Chic.
 

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People haven't changed. Something like that could easily happen again under the right circumstances. Just look back 11 days to what happened at our Capitol and the number of Americans who approve of it or refuse to condemn it.

ā€œThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
~ Edmund Burke

That said, what's a good WWII movie for this evening to honor those who died?
 
Just by coincidence we watched Steal A Pencil For Me last night. A documentary film about love in the time of the Holocaust.

Just to change the subject to lighter fare, today is also Mozart's birthday anniversary.
 
Don M. said:
When I was stationed in Germany, back in the early '60's, I visited the Buchenwald concentration camp, and it was a very moving experience. The people who were interred in those camps went through Hell.
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My brother was stationed in Germany in the 60ā€™s as well, he certainly preferred it to Vietnam
 
Even though I was born here in the U.S. after the war, my life has been affected since childhood. As a very young child I remember the family adults talking about it, crying about who they lost, wailing about it. I remember all the people with the tatoos on their wrists. I remember the pictures of Auschwitz with the lampshades made from Jewish chests. I remember knowing from birth that there were people who hated little me enough to kill me and my family.

I'm kind of a morose person. Lately I have been realizing that if I did not have to know the above life would have been less heavy. The young children, unfortunately, did have to have this hideous knowledge, had to learn it young, for safety and survival. I do wonder, "what if............"
 
Pepper said:
Even though I was born here in the U.S. after the war, my life has been affected since childhood. As a very young child I remember the family adults talking about it, crying about who they lost, wailing about it. I remember all the people with the tatoos on their wrists. I remember the pictures of Auschwitz with the lampshades made from Jewish chests. I remember knowing from birth that there were people who hated little me enough to kill me and my family.

I'm kind of a morose person. Lately I have been realizing that if I did not have to know the above life would have been less heavy. The young children, unfortunately, did have to have this hideous knowledge, had to learn it young, for safety and survival. I do wonder, "what if............"
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I think most of us knew these stories, grew up with them. Our fathers and some of our mothers, most of our male relatives served during WWII, we had a draft then. They brought back stories, some told, some whispered about and overheard, some never spoken of.

We did need to have this ā€œhideous knowledgeā€ as children to gage the distress of the adults, to learn the lessons of the past, to cement the memories, to never ever forget. We attempt to avoid such future horrors, the cry of never again learned at a young age.

Yet, we have failed several times, as a human race, to prevent such occurrences from happening on a smaller scale throughout our world to different religions different people, and the same religion and the same people.

Still we remember.

Every death counted, every life remembered, itā€™s all we can do, remember.
 
Aneeda72 said:
I think most of us knew these stories, grew up with them. Our fathers and some of our mothers, most of our male relatives served during WWII, we had a draft then. They brought back stories, some told, some whispered about and overheard, some never spoken of.

We did need to have this ā€œhideous knowledgeā€ as children to gage the distress of the adults, to learn the lessons of the past, to cement the memories, to never ever forget. We attempt to avoid such future horrors, the cry of never again learned at a young age.

Yet, we have failed several times, as a human race, to prevent such occurrences from happening on a smaller scale throughout our world to different religions different people, and the same religion and the same people.

Still we remember.

Every death counted, every life remembered, itā€™s all we can do, remember.
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We can do a lot more than just "remember." We can take actions to prevent something like that from happening again.
 
chic said:
I agree. We must prevent this from ever happening again.
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But it happens all the time-attempted genocide by one fraction of a population against another of a population for religious, racial, or genetic reasons. Saying we must prevent something from happening, that continues to happen, is -pardon me- useless, IMO.

Who are the ā€œweā€œ you speak of? How will the ā€œweā€ prevent genocide?
 
Aneeda72 said:
But it happens all the time-attempted genocide by one fraction of a population against another of a population for religious, racial, or genetic reasons. Saying we must prevent something from happening, that continues to happen, is -pardon me- useless, IMO.

Who are the ā€œweā€œ you speak of? How will the ā€œweā€ prevent genocide?
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The best prevention is knowledge.
 

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