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Do Not Stand Silent: Remembering Kristallnacht 1938
Tell us about your local Holocaust commemoration. How will you remember?
| SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS | < PREV 1 2 3 NEXT > [1 to 10 of 30] | Name: Jasmine B
September 05, 2008 12:03 PM | Location:
Adelaide, South Australia Message:
I am not Jewish, but I really want to attend a Holocaust commemoration in South Australia to show my rememberence. I will have to do some research..
The world has still so much to learn despite the horrific atrocities commited in the Holocaust. New racism is upon us, imbedded conciously and unconciously in societies all over the world. How do we combat this? We must educate people against difference, oppression and whiteness. As a teacher in training, I really hope I can make a difference. I am sorry for the crimes commited against every oppressed person in this world. At home that is the Aboriginal Australians and the invasion of Australia. I am also sorry for the Holocaust and the suffering Jewish had to endure. Saying sorry is not just a few words, it is every human beings duty to empathise, acknowledging another humans suffering past and present. It is our job to remember, because only then can we move forward to change. | Name: Uri Dromi
August 09, 2008 03:23 PM | Location:
Jerusalem Message:
I'm the Director General of Mishkenot Sha'ananim Conference, originally the first Jewish neighborhood outside the Old City of Jerusalem, built in 1860.
On Sunday November 9, 2008, 20:00 (Israel time), we will light an artistic display, resemmbling a destroyed synagogues. The German and Austrian Ambassadors in Israel will attend.
Precisely at the same time, snagogues in Germany and Austria, as well as in other countries of Europe (and - hopefully - in the US and elsewhere) will be illuminated and will keep their lights on all night. At certain places, schoolchildren will stand as "guards", and churches will ring their bells in solidarity.
To connect with us email dromi@mishkenot.org.il, tel. 972-2-629-2200, fax 972-2-625-5533 | Name: James Duszynski
June 19, 2008 01:35 PM | Location:
Two Rivers, Wi Message:
Every day is a day of rememberance for me. Every day I say a prayer for the survivors and for those who did not survive. I also say a prayer that something that cruel will never happen again. As long as I have breath in my lungs, I will never let people of the younger generation forget what happened in those awful dark days of history. | Name: Student
June 03, 2008 06:58 PM | Location:
Midwestern united states Message:
Remember those how survived and who didn't. Remember Elie Weisel (surviver, author of Night) and his family tha was killed. Remember Anne Frank (author of Diary of a youg Girl) and her family. | Name: Nancy
May 02, 2008 05:59 PM | Location:
Chesapeake, VA Message:
Another English teacher and I are using genocides of the Genocidal Century as beginning place for our seniors' research projects. We offered a field trip to ushmm and this week we offered our students the opportunity to weak small colorful papers attached to their clothing by paper clips. The papers say, Holocaust Memorial Week
- Why a paper clip? It is believed that they were invented by a Norwegian and that the Norwegian people wore paper clips to let the Nazis know that the Norwegians were "holding together" as one, just as a paper clips holds papers together. - April 28 - May 2, 2008 - What can you do? Wear a clip to tell everyone that "Never again" must mean the end of genocide.
The students were offered a piece of candy each day that they walked into class wearing the sign or clip - just a little stimulus! Many people, outside of our students, ended up wearing the signs, including the school principal, one person's doctor, another's employer (a Russian Jew, unbeknownst to the student). Such a little thing but it made us feel as if we were doing something and it, obviously touched someoutside of our environment that the lessons have not been lost! | Name: Faye V
May 02, 2008 08:27 AM | Location:
Chicago, IL Message:
I will say a prayer for those lives lost.
I will say a prayer for my grandfather who fought to liberate these people in WWII.
I will remember how I visited Dachau concentration camp almost 69 years to the day of my grandfather being there and the emotions that swept over my soul. He was with me at that moment and I will never forget that day.
I will share this day with others and embrace the blessings and progression that we have reached today for the Jewish people, while respecting and honoring those like Oskar Schindler who made efforts to change the future. | Name: Paul Tiger
May 02, 2008 05:04 AM | Location:
Longmont, Colorado USA Message:
My parents were survivors. My dad died in 2001 and my mom is 93 living nearby. Last night we lit a yartzeit candle and talked, as we have for years. Their stories were always amazing and horrible. A young couple caught in a war, running from country to country, escaping a Vichy camp and surviving a north african one. All the while having no idea where their families were. Most had been gassed or gunned down.
Before my father died I gave him a computer and he began to write. I commemorate this day reading his thoughts and how he and my mom made it out alive.
While Jews were the primary target, so many others were murdered as well. Gypsies were nearly wiped out.
I do not believe that the Holocaust has ended. It continues to this moment - somewhere. | Name: Katherine Nabel
May 01, 2008 08:19 PM | Location:
Washington, DC Message:
When I was twelve, my father called me to his computer to watch a video--what I saw changed my life forever. In it, my grandparents told the story of their survival from the Holocaust. All of their family members had been killed at Auschwitz. When it was their turn to be killed, my grandpa Ed grabbed my grandma Kay and they started running toward the nearest fence. Knowing they had found something, everyone else followed. The Nazis shot at the crowd with machine guns and killed them all. My grandparents lay under the mound of dead bodies, their bodies soaking with their friends' blood, until dark. They got out through a hole in the bottom of the fence and lived under the protection of a brave Christian, Alfred Zbik. Finally, they came to America.
Words cannot express how I felt when I saw my grandmother, my solstice, my protector, the one who sends me brownies with chocolate chips and celebrates Hannukah on Thanksgiving with us, talking about how when she was seventeen had to go through such an inexcusable genocide. I love my grandparents to the depths of my soul. Because of their immense courage and hope, I am here today. I exist because they escaped.
We must never forget the Holocaust. Wherever you go, you must tell the story. My story is now yours. Tell my story so that this will never, NEVER happen again. | Name: Ritamarie
April 30, 2008 06:15 PM | Location:
Denver Message:
I will remember my very beloved Great and Great, Great, Grand Parents, and all my very many cousins, and those who died in Poland. Yet how others came to America and created a new beginning for our family. I will remember all my beloved family who didn't make it out from Poland, those that perished, yet others somehow, made it and still have managed to carry on our family name in Poland. I will remember the love my family has given to me, by passing on a beautiful heritage to us here in America. I will spend each Holocaust Rememberance Day, remembering those that gave me a life, here in America. | Name: Gerry Freeman
April 30, 2008 05:28 PM | Location:
Blue Hill Maine Message:
As president of the Bagaduce Chorale I am honored to report that our chorale will be performing Donald McCullough's Holocaust Cantata on May 2, at 7:30 PM and on May 3 at 3:00 PM in Blue Hill Maine. In addition we will also be performing The Rutter Requium as an offering of peace and hope for the future. | | SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS | < PREV 1 2 3 NEXT > [1 to 10 of 30] |
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