Auschwitz Memorial Day today

Thank you for this nanna8. I agree one hundred percent.

Thanks for this Nanna8
Harrowing but necessary reading to hear survivors.In Germany school children, teenagers are taken to the camps so the message can go on.Many are in tears, as you would be.

Antisemitism seems to be always with us. I really don’t understand why. Certainly the situation in Gaza seems to have emboldened the antisemites, all over the world, sadly including here in the UK.

Oreo

Thanks for this Nanna8
Harrowing but necessary reading to hear survivors.In Germany school children, teenagers are taken to the camps so the message can go on.Many are in tears, as you would be.

I have visited Auschwitz Oreo. It is a sobering place. I have also visited Dachau and I have visited many Holocaust museums as we travelled around Europe. The memorial in Berlin is sobering. There is a museum underneath it.

My DD’s have been to Dachau on a school trip years ago, it really hit home to them.

We should never forget 🙏🏻🕯️

I visited Auschwitz some years ago. I had the beginnings of what turned out to be a dose of flu so I wasn't feeling particularly well, a bit shivery and sorry for myself. It made me realize that however "rotten" I may have felt it was nothing, absolutely nothing
compared to what was inflicted on the victims of the Holocaust and the terror, degradation and deprivation they endured.

I've heard before about people who don't believe that concentration camps were real but I was quite staggered to see a reference to 'the Fable of Auschwitz' in a comment made about a year ago.

It made me feel quite sick so I left a reply telling her she needs to learn to read and use her brain before exposing her ignorance to the world.

Was that comment made on GN AreWeThereYet?
Or somewhere else?
If GN, I hope it was taken down.

I hope so too.

Unfortunately, even now, anti-semitism is on the rise as was mentioned today at the Memorial.

We should never forget.

Visiting Auschwitz was one of the most harrowing experiences of my life. I think because it was a cold, windy, snowy winter's day made it all the more real and all the more harrowing. It will stay vividly etched in my mind forever.

If any place on earth should teach humanity something, it is this.

But sadly, this doesn't seem to be the case.

Let's just pause a moment to read the final part of the Holocaust Memorial day prayer -

Through our prayers and actions, help us to stand together with those who are suffering, so that light may banish all darkness, love will prevail over hate and good will triumph over evil.

This is from the official Auschwitz Memorial account:

"Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time."

The events of 7th Oct 23 have unleashed a wave of antisemitism across the world. One of the speakers at Auschwitz mentioned this. He mentioned that children today, since 7th Oct 23, are being told that they must not display any sign of their Jewishness for fear of being targeted. He’s right. This is what is happening right here in the UK. In London, our own capital city. Jewish children are told not to wear any sign that they are attending a Jewish school.

Is this what has been learnt in eighty years?

maddyone

The events of 7th Oct 23 have unleashed a wave of antisemitism across the world. One of the speakers at Auschwitz mentioned this. He mentioned that children today, since 7th Oct 23, are being told that they must not display any sign of their Jewishness for fear of being targeted. He’s right. This is what is happening right here in the UK. In London, our own capital city. Jewish children are told not to wear any sign that they are attending a Jewish school.

Is this what has been learnt in eighty years?

It's not just Jews are dehumanised. The lesson should have been universal. There should have been a lesson for all humanity - I fear it hasn't been learnt. Just look around.

At 8.00 tonight we are being invited to put a candle in our windows in remembrance for those who died at Auschwitz, and for the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, and for all the sixty million people who died in WW2.

I shall be doing this in remembrance.

growstuff

maddyone

The events of 7th Oct 23 have unleashed a wave of antisemitism across the world. One of the speakers at Auschwitz mentioned this. He mentioned that children today, since 7th Oct 23, are being told that they must not display any sign of their Jewishness for fear of being targeted. He’s right. This is what is happening right here in the UK. In London, our own capital city. Jewish children are told not to wear any sign that they are attending a Jewish school.

Is this what has been learnt in eighty years?

It's not just Jews are dehumanised. The lesson should have been universal. There should have been a lesson for all humanity - I fear it hasn't been learnt. Just look around.

The lesson was universal and powerful.

Growstuff your last paragraph is true, I don’t think anything really has been learnt about mans inhumanity to man we have had two big wars going in last few years and we know from the news the suffering.

Allsorts

Growstuff your last paragraph is true, I don’t think anything really has been learnt about mans inhumanity to man we have had two big wars going in last few years and we know from the news the suffering.

I despair at times. Humans have the capacity to do so much good, yet we have shown ourselves capable of so much pointless destruction.

Just lit my candle.

maddyone

Was that comment made on GN AreWeThereYet?
Or somewhere else?
If GN, I hope it was taken down.

No not on GN. It was a comment on a YouTube video I was watching (nothing to do with the content of the video). From the username I suspect the person was American.

I've read such things before but thought such stupidity was dying out.

Thanks for letting me know AWTY, I’m glad it wasn’t on GN.