Never Forget

[Por_sha911]

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/on-holocaust-remembrance-day-honor-6-million-murdered-jews-by-showing-solidarity-with-jews-alive-today

[Baz]

Thanks, Joe....

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019: Timeline of Events From Hitler's Rise to Power to Nuremberg Trials

[Racerbvd]

Never forget , never let it happen again.

[Jeff Higgins]

Never forget? Yet we have somehow forgotten every other mass genocide of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, some with greater death tolls than "The Holocaust".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_toll

I'm not trying to minimize their suffering. My mom lived through it as a young girl, the daughter of a German pig farmer. She had some personal stories of what happened to her Jewish friends that would absolutely tear you apart to hear. She was that man with the tattoo in my young life. She never forgot, never stopped her warnings.

I have been in their Holocaust Museum in Israel. It is truly gut wrenching to walk through it and follow the timeline. For anyone who wants to go, allow yourself a couple of days in the museum. It takes that long to see it all, and one is still left to feel like we only just got a glimpse into the horror of it all.

So, yeah, I get the need to "never forget", to keep the horrors of the Holocaust fresh as a reminder to never let it happen again. But we have... time and time again... And we have already forgotten those, the more recent atrocities. Perhaps one of the worst observations I can make about mankind is that what happened to the Jews was nothing special. It does not stand apart from what has happened to many, many other people. So while we pledge to "never forget" the Jews, we allow it to continue elsewhere, and very quickly forget about it. If we even bother to discuss it at all.

[id10t]

Never forget. Never again.

[sc_rufctr]

Never forget...

More than 11,000,000 people died in the Nazi concentration camps of WW2.

The figures are staggering but Communism has it's own special place... You'd think we'd learn

According to R. J. Rummel's book Death by Government (1994), about 110 million people, foreign and domestic, were killed by Communist democide from 1900 to 1987.[31]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes

[Alan A]

Originally Posted by id10t

Never forget. Never again.

It happens all over. We don’t seem to care.

China
Cambodia
Burma
Sri Lanka
Rwanda
Bosnia
Darfur

That’s off the top of my head, all after WW2
I’d start with Armenia and Russia and count backwards otherwise.

[masraum]

There's a video that I can't remember the name of. I believe it was shown to German soldiers after the war. I want to say that it was called "____ and bone" but that doesn't seem to be it.

Anyone have any idea what the name of the movie is?

[Bugsinrugs]

My father holding his grandson and yes... that’s his finger. He lost his first wife and six month old child to the gas chambers. Nicest guy you would ever meet.

[Nostril Cheese]

My grandparents were Dutch Resistance. Ive heard too many stories.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Never forget? Yet we have somehow forgotten every other mass genocide of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, some with greater death tolls than "The Holocaust".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_toll

I'm not trying to minimize their suffering. My mom lived through it as a young girl, the daughter of a German pig farmer. She had some personal stories of what happened to her Jewish friends that would absolutely tear you apart to hear. She was that man with the tattoo in my young life. She never forgot, never stopped her warnings.

I have been in their Holocaust Museum in Israel. It is truly gut wrenching to walk through it and follow the timeline. For anyone who wants to go, allow yourself a couple of days in the museum. It takes that long to see it all, and one is still left to feel like we only just got a glimpse into the horror of it all.

So, yeah, I get the need to "never forget", to keep the horrors of the Holocaust fresh as a reminder to never let it happen again. But we have... time and time again... And we have already forgotten those, the more recent atrocities. Perhaps one of the worst observations I can make about mankind is that what happened to the Jews was nothing special. It does not stand apart from what has happened to many, many other people. So while we pledge to "never forget" the Jews, we allow it to continue elsewhere, and very quickly forget about it. If we even bother to discuss it at all.

Grown up in upstate NY, the married couple next door, he was Austrian and she was Czech. Both of their families lost everything to get out in the 1930's. The wife was about 3 years old and they were still working to escape Paris in 1940. The Husband and his family did a literally Van Trappe family and walked to Switzerland. He was about 10 years old. Rudy passed away in this past year.

My wife's family had to leave Spain around the same time (middle 1930's) because of a different Fascist dictator. Her grandfather was Opus Dei and they fought against Franco. It was a lousy time all around.

I grew up with a lot of Jewish kids in my town. Most of them were great people. What amazes me is to know other people for continental Europe who are so Anti-Semitic.

[onewhippedpuppy]

I’ve known quite a few Jewish folks in my life and cannot fathom why they seem to garner so much hate. Simply some of the nicest people I’ve had the pleasure of knowing. I did a lot of remodeling work many years ago for a sweet old lady that was a German Holocaust survivor, she told my wife and I a few stories but I know she held back many more.

[masraum]

In case anyone was curious..

"Night and Fog (1956, French) Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek in Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard), one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust. Juxtaposing the stillness of the abandoned camps’ empty buildings with haunting wartime footage, Resnais investigates humanity’s capacity for violence, and presents the devastating suggestion that such horrors could occur again."

[sammyg2]

Remembering is important, but more important is continuing to fight against the dishonest scum who deny it ever happened.
There are many, they are all around us. At all levels.
They are working to destroy all that was fought and sacrificed for and are nearly as bad as those who perpetrated this crime against all humanity over 75 years ago.