Will you be lighting a candle today?

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.

I will light one

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

My candle is in the window

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

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

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

My candle is burning.

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.

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.

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

I have. Thank you for telling us franbern

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.

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

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

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

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.

I think it was so horrendous and for me it's still difficult to comprehend how a civilised European country could become so completely evil. Almost as if my mind can't quite take it in. After the war, my mother who had been widowed, was very keen on 'Peace and Reconciliation,' which led us to make contact with, and friends of, quite a number of German families, visiting each others country and so on. It opened my eyes to the fact that not all Germans were wicked, some resisted and paid a heavy price, others did what they could to support the persecuted. All felt enormous guilt about their country. Yes I shall light a candle today, it must never never happen again.

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

Yes thank you Franbern, I will light a candle at 4pm and remember all those or who were killed in the death camps .

Thank you Franbern, I will also light a candle.

I will light a candle.
I have Jewish friends, some of who escaped the Holocaust because they had come to England to escape the Russian Pogroms. Others lost many of their extended family in the Holocaust. We should all remember and learn a lesson.

There's an excellent documentary on iPlayer 'How the Holocaust Began'
It features James Bulgin, who created the Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum and investigates a story left unexplored - thousands of men, women and children shot and buried by the Nazis in thousands of trenches and ditches, dug in fields and forests across eastern Europe. This was often unrecorded and uncounted, and the victims lost to history.

I will too.

There will be one lit in this household my DH has Yahrzeit memorial candles. They are often lit until they burn out in memory of family no longer with us.