Remembering

[hoops]

I'm not sure this is the right place, nor am i sure it is the wrong one. in my town, this week there are ceremonies to remember those lost in the holocaust. There are ceremonies every day so that each place of worship can invite others to their ceremony and remember as one. We have all lost from this unthinkable event in history. We have all lost and can all remember. i know i'm jumbling, i'm trying to show the appropriate respect, it's not about me, but them, always remember them.
peace
pax
shalom
pace
hoops

[leslie]

Hoops,

Of course this is the right place to post about something that clearly affects you (and so many of us) so much!

Hugs,
Leslie

[GodSistah]

friede
amani
paix
eiphnh
paz

:)

[hoops]

thank you both
peace
hoops

[Agnes]

Thank you, Noël, for remembering. We do the same here tomorrow. May they all be in our hearts.

Peace, salaam, shalom to all.

[Eva]

Yes, we remember.

Eva

[david uk]

we must never allow ourselves or future generations to forget.

[Mimi]

Thanks for your posts, Noel, and thanks to all others!

Those who lost their lives and those who lost their loved ones and the peace of heart during the Holocaust are always present in Rachel's and my life. Rachel has lost many relatives of her mother's and grandparents' generation.

And it's really comforting to know that others remember as well.

Mimi

[david uk]

Janis Ian: Tattoo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12bMJUyfkQY

[Eva]

I notice sometimes that young people are somewhat out of touch with the horrible things that have happened during the war. They don't know anyone of their generation who has lost people. They didn't grow up in a time when survivors were still alive. They didn't grow up in a time when war was this close. And they can't understand the horrors which are indeed hard to grasp. For them it is indeed 'history'. I understand that.

But I do think it's important to keep educating them and tell them about it. And to not only look at what happened then but also connect it to things that happen now and dangers we are facing in society at this time. And to talk with them about the impact these things have on people who survived then but also on their loved ones then and later.

History is alive today. For a future it is important to remember the past. For young people it is important to make history alive so they can relate to it again.

Eva

[gisli]

"No more fear the dark"

Janis Ian.....guess what song, what cd?

[dragonlady]

I we don't remember then the next generation will forget...that can never be permitted to happen...

-di

[David_Gardiner]

In England we have our Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 27th of January each year– the date that the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by allied troops. I don't think that there is much danger of it's being forgotten here. Just lately we have had a large number of Polish immigrants coming to live in England, many of whom lost family members in circumstances that we can hardly even imagine. May the human race be spared anything even remotely like that, ever again.

[hoops]

Eva i think you are most correct.
we need to educate our youth about things such as the Holocaust, Hiroshima, The Russian Holocaust, Gitmo and others. History repeats itself, maybe someday we will all remember to change the future for the better, because we've seen the terror of the past.
peace
hoops
PS We have all lost someone to the Holocaust.

[Beth]

A couple of years ago, I read Laurence Reese's book Auschwitz: A New History. I will never think of the Holocaust without all those feelings coming back which came to me through that reading.

It is a horribly frightening thing even now.

I feel sorrow for us all.

[leslie]

The unfortunate thing is that that kind of inability to empathize and ability to target with total animosity still exists today and the people who display this behavior are oblivious to their level of self deception! In a way I feel sorry for them, but they are very frightening at the same time.

Leslie