Will you be lighting a candle today?

Not only will I be lighting a candle on behalf of the holocaust day and certain Jewish members of my family, but also remembering my baby sister who died in her sleep 72 years ago. Never forgotten

My father was in the RAF, shot down over Holland in Dec 1942 aged 28. My candle is for him too.

If I had a candle, I would certainly light it. Op

We must remember the past. We must be aware of the Ukraine as I write. We must prevent man's inhumanity to man in the future.

I have. Thank you for telling us franbern

My neighbour is Jewish. Our candles are in windows facing each other.

Our Jewish friends lost 38 members of their family [including his mother's twin brother] in the Holocaust. They are naturally remembering World Holocaust Memorial Day amongst their small community there.
But even worse, is a Jewish friend whose parents took her to another part of France from Paris, left her with a Christian family saying they would return for her after the war. Of course, they never did. But they had burnt all her papers as they did not want anyone to know she was Jewish. To this day, she doesn't know who she is or anything about herself. She is stoic.

grandMattie

I shall.
Curiously, I am reading a book called "The Tatooist of Auschwitz". Very humbling.

I am reading "The Midwife of Auschwitz" now.
Harrowing that these atrocities happened.

I remember all the poor souls often.

My candle is burning.

My candle is burning too.
May all our candles shine a light on dark corners of the world.

I won't be lighting a candle, but I will most certainly be 'remembering' and reflecting on this and other atrocities.

I have just started reading Lily’s Promise, I am preparing for tears in the coming days.

My candle is in the window

and still it goes on.Yes I will light a candle.

I will light one

Good post Franbern- yes, I have lit a candle.

But as you say, this holocaust however cruel and awful is one of many that we never talk about.

My candle is also for the victims in Palestine.

Do remember that it was not just jews who died in those camps. Socialists, Trade Unionists, Romanies, anyone with mental or physical disabilities. and Homosexuals were also there.

It has continued long after those camps were liberated and closed down. And continues at this very moment.

Once someone is de-humanised it happens. Israeli's de=humanise the Palestinians, Trump attempted to do this with the Mexicans seeking refuge. In this country it is happening with the tragic boat people.

Vigilance and the acceptance of all people regardless of skin colour, religion, gender orientation etc. is the only hope for the future.

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Thank you Franbern. I have lit a candle to remember all who died and continue to do so.

and those 100s of young kids arriving in UK who have disappeared and are very possibly being abused in so many cruel of ways.

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Holocaust Memorial Day from the National Memorial Arboretum today.

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Definitely will light a candle this afternoon. Like many other GNs here, my parents were in the army in the war (yes, Mum too). They always stressed the importance of standing up for everyone, against tyranny.

Absolutely. Whilst we remember the victims of Nazi Germany, let us also remember the suffering in Ukraine and remember why we need to send them arms as well as aid.

I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t know (or have forgotten) that it was Holocaust Memorial Day. I’m from a German Jewish background and some of my distant relatives will have died in the camps. I have made a note for next year.

I didn't know about the candle but have had a thoughtful day. I have read two non fiction books this month 'Lily's Promise' and 'A Village in the 'Third Reich'. Both are amazing and painful reads, one the testimony of a survivor and the other a history of a small town in Germany.
We must always remember and be aware of 'othering' and that ordinary people allowed and enabled these horrific events

Yes ordinary everyday people did allow, and turn away from these dreadful events, but it is so easy for us, living in safety, to condemn. Standing up against such a regime required extraordinary bravery, for not only were you risking your own life but that of family and close friends, the thought of the consequences to your children, parents, as well as yourself on discovery or betrayal were sobering, and I'm not sure how any of us would have reacted under such circumstances. Would we have been that brave?