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Dawn Reiter 2013-04-16 02:18 PM |
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Leesport, PA Message:
I have been teaching a unit on the Holocaust, including Anne Frank, for 14 years. Recently I have read reports that Anne was denied asylum to the United States. My previous knowledge of her life did not include that detail. Is it factual? If so, what are the circumstances. Thanks for the guidance. |
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Michelle 2013-04-07 06:45 PM |
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ottawa, canada Message:
I live in a nursing home. I'm in my forties I ran into my first holocaust denier today. He didn't think that the Holocaust was as bad as was claimed. He also thinks that Hitler managed to sneak out of Germany after the war and died of old age. He wanted to know why young people like me are buying into the "*&^" and keeping it alive. And the scary part is that this man was old enough to live through that "#$%&" as he called it. So why do I buy into it?
I'll tell you why. I have something in common with the Jewiah people. If I had been born in Hitler's Germany with my body the way I was born with it or if Hitler had won the war, I would have wound up on Hitler's hit list for my cerebral palsy. I would have been sent to a killing center and finished off. I have been very aware of that and that at least one another ancient society would have done the same regardless of how bright I am or how nice. I have been very painfully aware of this since the age of 15 and I make it my business to learn and remember what my esteemed elder today called "#$%$" because soon the eyewitnesses will all be dead and it will become that much easier to deny. Jews have every reason to fear when anti-sematism goes on the rise. Do I believe that the Holocaust happened? Yes. Why else would the State of Israel insist that every citizen, man or woman, spend three years in the army? Because other nations are lining up to wipe them off the map. Jews came very close to extinction in Europe and while I am not Jewish, I am well aware that every Jew must feel more than a little fear when someone talks of wiping out Israel. People are also embracing euthanasia again in certain parts of the world and not just for the terminally ill and believe me, it is just as frightening. I make it my business to know the history of Nazi Germany because soon my generation may be called upon to stop it from repeating itself. Regardless of age, if you read the history of the Nazi regime, see yourself on that hit list and see history repeating itself, well, you understand fear very, very well. I will do what I can to ensure websites like this stay open, that the truth remains told and to defend the Jewish people, whether or not they return the favour should the disabled come under attack. And even if you aren't on Hitler's hit list, all it takes is for a madman to gain political power and put you on his own. It happened in Germany, those who do not remember history, or who deny it, are doomed to repeat it.
The worst form of hatred is for someone to want you dead. It's frightening and it hurts.
And understand I would do more, much more to help save that reading that history tears my heart out and makes me as sick as though I lost someone in the Holocaust myself. |
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Jon Henderson 2013-03-12 12:44 PM |
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Georgia Message:
My father Sgt. Paul Henderson was with the 72nd Signal Company attached to the 36th Infantry Division (3rd Army) and was at Dachau shortly after it was liberated. He was deeply affected by the horrors there. I am proud to be the son of a American Liberator. |
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Trinity Massey 2013-02-25 12:24 PM |
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Arknasas Message:
This is so sad! I hate that she had to go through this at a young age! |
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Hendrik Merison 2013-02-19 03:24 PM |
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Belfast, NY, USA Message:
My parents hid a total of six Jewsof which five were females. Although I am no longer able to establish an exact time line, it was I believe in mid 1943 that a German Razzia picked up our Jewish guests and incarcerated my Dad. As I was eleven years old only highlights are indelibly engraved in my mind, such as when one of the Nazi hooligans placed his pistol on my right temple demanding where I was going. I will never forget the feeling of that cold steel on my temple.
My Dad survived the concentration camp, but none of the Jews we had for more than a year amidst us survived; they all died in the gas chambers.
Amongst the hardships that I recall was that the mother of the ladies was sick. Later I was told that she had what is now known as Cancer. That too brought difficulties as her demise was anticipated and the problem of disposing of a corpse would bring more troubles for my parents.
Dad was interrogated at the infamous headquarters on the Utrechtseweg in Arnhem.
Our home was in the city of Arnhem, known from the book and movie A Bridge Too Far. |
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Victoria R Walden 2013-01-02 11:03 PM |
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Kempner, TX Message:
The Rolling W, 89th is the unit that my grandpa was in during WWII. He passed away at the age of 93 on December 26th. The Holocaust Memorial had honored him as a Liberator of the Ordruf Prison. He was also honored this summer at his church for being the last WWII living veteran in the church. Goodbye Pops we will miss you! |
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Eileen Fournier 2012-12-27 01:11 PM |
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Virginia Message:
I've watched the movies of the Holocaust like: "The Boy in the Blue Pajamas", "Freedom Writers", and "Schindler's List". During my visit in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, there were many other things I had missed from learning about the Holocaust. They had it hard, and its very heartbreaking to know and see what they have gone through. How terrible it would be if that cause repeats itself.. I don't need any presents for Christmas, I don't buy things I don't need; I'm just thankful I have a home and my family to keep living. |
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Nicholas 2012-11-23 01:16 AM |
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Miami Message:
Hate and discrimination no matter how subtle. It's still happening. |
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Shelby 2012-10-22 01:07 PM |
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Minnesota, USA Message:
I'm doing a project for my senior English class, where we got a person from the Holocaust, this is mine...We are also reading Night by Ellie Wiesel...Such a sad topic to discuss, I'd love to visit the museum eventually. |
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leonidas m. aballe 2012-10-19 11:00 PM |
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philippines Message:
My father was a former USAFFE, stationed in Visayas, Cebu. Those who were assigned in Luzon were victims of Japanese initiated death march. Few of these prison camps were liberated by the returning Allied forces and many perished on the death march. But what we suffer was just too little as compared to Europe Nazi prison camps. |
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