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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

70 years ago tomorrow the Russians liberated the survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp.

A tragic chapter in history that reminds us of man's inhumanity to man.

Always remember what hate is capable of and guard against it.

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"70 years ago tomorrow the Russians liberated the survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp.

A tragic chapter in history that reminds us of man's inhumanity to man.

Always remember what hate is capable of and guard against it. "

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"70 years ago tomorrow the Russians liberated the survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp.

A tragic chapter in history that reminds us of man's inhumanity to man.

Always remember what hate is capable of and guard against it. "

well said..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

here here

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By *obbytupperMan
over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley

"70 years ago tomorrow the Russians liberated the survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp.

A tragic chapter in history that reminds us of man's inhumanity to man.

Always remember what hate is capable of and guard against it. "

We must never forget nor allow our future generations not to learn about what happened and realise it must never ever be allowed to happen again.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"70 years ago tomorrow the Russians liberated the survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp.

A tragic chapter in history that reminds us of man's inhumanity to man.

Always remember what hate is capable of and guard against it.

We must never forget nor allow our future generations not to learn about what happened and realise it must never ever be allowed to happen again."

absolutely agree with the sentiment but sadly on a smaller scale it has since then..

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By *uby0000Woman
over a year ago

hertfordshire

I watched a virtual tour of a concentration camp on the internet ... couldn't watch it all as it had me in tears

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Here's the problem. ..

There's a massive bitch called History...and it has a habit of repeating itself.

Nice post though...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

BBC4 aired the first part of Shoah yesterday, probably on the iPlayer if anyone missed it watching top gear

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"70 years ago tomorrow the Russians liberated the survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp.

A tragic chapter in history that reminds us of man's inhumanity to man.

Always remember what hate is capable of and guard against it. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"70 years ago tomorrow the Russians liberated the survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp.

A tragic chapter in history that reminds us of man's inhumanity to man.

Always remember what hate is capable of and guard against it. "

Auschwitz-Birkenau was not the only concentration camp in Poland during II World War. It was one from ten. In Treblinka 713,000 people lost their lives. In Majdanek 78,000 people were murdered.

It was a very sad chapter in history for Poland and other countries in Europe that concentration camps were situated at during the war.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Sorry didn't see this thread when I just put one up

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I always note Holocaust Memorial Day.

I try and remember all the victims and survivors of the WW2 holocaust and the subsequent holocausts we have seen since.

Light a candle tomorrow.

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By *uby0000Woman
over a year ago

hertfordshire

survivor talks about surviving it at 11 20pm on BBC 2 tonite

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"70 years ago tomorrow the Russians liberated the survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp.

A tragic chapter in history that reminds us of man's inhumanity to man.

Always remember what hate is capable of and guard against it.

We must never forget nor allow our future generations not to learn about what happened and realise it must never ever be allowed to happen again.

absolutely agree with the sentiment but sadly on a smaller scale it has since then..

And ironically enough those some Russians who liberated the prisoners are the one of the worse culprits for how it deals with enemies of its "government"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Visited both Auschwitz/Birkeneau and Majdanek concentration camps about 14 years ago - still find it difficult to talk about it to this day.

Cannot in my wildest nightmares imagine what it must have been like to be held there against my will and to endure the suffering that those poor people went through.

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over a year ago

"70 years ago tomorrow the Russians liberated the survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp.

A tragic chapter in history that reminds us of man's inhumanity to man.

Always remember what hate is capable of and guard against it.

Auschwitz-Birkenau was not the only concentration camp in Poland during II World War. It was one from ten. In Treblinka 713,000 people lost their lives. In Majdanek 78,000 people were murdered.

It was a very sad chapter in history for Poland and other countries in Europe that concentration camps were situated at during the war.

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.Typically off the Germans they nicked a British idea and refined it to the point of ludicrousness

A truly heinous act, carried out with a sheer bean counting emotionless attitude, grim is the only word to describe it

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By *uby0000Woman
over a year ago

hertfordshire

my hubby went to one years ago and said it was deathly quiet ... not even a bird .... just a really horrid atmosphere

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By *0shadesOfFilthMan
over a year ago

nearby

The hypocritical politicians will have plenty to say tomorrow. The UK exports 42% of our arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a country that practices oppression, particularly of women and has executes over 5000 people in public beheadings, and is the funding source of both al quada and boko haram.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I've been to fort breendonk in Belgium it was actually classed as holding camp, that was sad enough for me with the stories they where telling about different inmates, they did have a small torture chamber and that was bad enough

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

went to Bergen belsen about 30 years ago, truly awful..

but such places need to be visited by all generations lest we forget what we are capable of..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This might sound odd but i don't think I'll ever go there, something's are too grim to be used as tourist attractions even if it's educational.

Nobody left Hiroshima as rubble as a reminder of the horror of nuclear weapons or Dresden in ashes.

I just would prefer it be left as a memorial for the victims families and not for tourists.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Heart breaks when I think about what happened to all those people. So sad.

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By *ilkpantiesCouple
over a year ago

colwyn bay

Time that the evil of fascism was consigned to the dustbin of history not resurrected by those afraid of difference .Peace and love

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Unfortunately history is already starting to repeat itself an I actually do worry what the world's situation will be like in as little as 5yrs time..Also it comes as no shock that the majority of kids today dont even know who Winston Churchill was..if they dont know that then they are not being taught of the World Wars an its horrors..We are on a slippery slope

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By *ngieandMrManCouple
over a year ago

hereford

Slightly off track but in keeping with those of you who have visited the death camp sites.

A good few years ago I went along as a parent-assistant on a school trip to the War Graves in France etc.

I don't mind telling you that I cried several times each and every day of the 4 day tour and then when I phoned my wife in the evening each day, I cried again relating my day to her.

But that was 'just' WW1 an WW2 war graves where victims of the symptoms of war lay dead, I only mean to make light of it relatively, the death camps were quite a different matter... Just mass murder, and not a consequence of war, it didn't have to happen!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Heart breaks when I think about what happened to all those people. So sad. "

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"70 years ago tomorrow the Russians liberated the survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp.

A tragic chapter in history that reminds us of man's inhumanity to man.

Always remember what hate is capable of and guard against it.

Auschwitz-Birkenau was not the only concentration camp in Poland during II World War. It was one from ten. In Treblinka 713,000 people lost their lives. In Majdanek 78,000 people were murdered.

It was a very sad chapter in history for Poland and other countries in Europe that concentration camps were situated at during the war.

.Typically off the Germans they nicked a British idea and refined it to the point of ludicrousness

A truly heinous act, carried out with a sheer bean counting emotionless attitude, grim is the only word to describe it"

True we had concentration camps but not a deliberate policy of genocide using industrial methods. And let's not forget that the Germans had also used concentration camps in Africa to deliberately commit genocide against the Herero people in 1919.

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"my hubby went to one years ago and said it was deathly quiet ... not even a bird .... just a really horrid atmosphere "

I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau a few years ago in August. There were plenty of birds flying there.

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

southend

I visited a place called Terezin yesterday just outside Prague. It was used as a holding camp before shipping people off to concentration camp such as Auschwitz and bergen. Over 139,000 were deported there, 86,000 were then sent to concentration camp and 33,000 died there.

It was a horrid place. Mass graves where they threw Jewish ashes with no names of who they were, just discarded in a hole.

And that was 'just' a holding camp.

There were 2 Orthodox Jews on the trip. I asked them why they were visiting such a place and they answered with we need to tell our children our history however horrid it was, hopefully they will learn.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I really want to visit but I'm not sure if I could hold it together

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I visited Auschwitz about 12 years ago when I traveled around Europe..its a very nasty and grim place..but I am glad it is open to the public..the world needs to be reminded what went on there so it never happens again

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"70 years ago tomorrow the Russians liberated the survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp.

A tragic chapter in history that reminds us of man's inhumanity to man.

Always remember what hate is capable of and guard against it. "

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"This might sound odd but i don't think I'll ever go there, something's are too grim to be used as tourist attractions even if it's educational.

Nobody left Hiroshima as rubble as a reminder of the horror of nuclear weapons or Dresden in ashes.

I just would prefer it be left as a memorial for the victims families and not for tourists."

You really should.

We did a tour of Northern Europe in 2012 and included the WW1 trenches, Dachau and Dresden.

They were extremely poignant and not at all touristy. (And much more moving than the holocaust memorial in Berlin).

We felt taking the kids to such sites was an important part of their education in life, and we all felt truly humbled.

May we always remember.

Mr ddc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We only see pictures, videos and hear accounts, i cant imagine what it was like to actually witness it. Somethings are beyond our comprehension thankfully.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A great reminder, thanks for posting.

Will try to light a candle tomorrow.

An amazing part of history that I don't think I can comprehend, numbers wise.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As someone who would not have been born had the Germans not been stopped just north of Moscow -

THANK YOU.

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

southend

"A great reminder, thanks for posting.

Will try to light a candle tomorrow.

An amazing part of history that I don't think I can comprehend, numbers wise."

Pssssst - today!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"my hubby went to one years ago and said it was deathly quiet ... not even a bird .... just a really horrid atmosphere

I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau a few years ago in August. There were plenty of birds flying there. "

The 'no birds or animals' is a true urban myth. There are as many birds and animals in Auschwitz as there are in any other part of Poland.

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By *oo hotCouple
over a year ago

North West

Unfortunately this kind of thing has occurred several times since then and it is happening today in Africa and the Middle East. The scale may be smaller, but for those involved the tragedy is just as great.

I think that many forget how innocently it all started in the 1930's when a charismatic leader convinced a few fiercely patriotic Germans that the economic problems were caused by outsiders and firmly laid the blame outside Germany. Blame soon became policy and the net widened as German Nationalism was more focused about the true indigenous German. All minorities were victimised and by some bizarre and twisted psychosocial chain events an entire population started to believe that it was a good thing to rid the planet of those who impure genetically.

This goes on today between tribes in Africa and between religious sects in The Middle East. You don't need to do much internet trawling to find out what some Muslims are doing to the wrong kind of Muslim in the the name of their God and what they are doing in parts of Nigeria.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"This might sound odd but i don't think I'll ever go there, something's are too grim to be used as tourist attractions even if it's educational.

Nobody left Hiroshima as rubble as a reminder of the horror of nuclear weapons or Dresden in ashes.

I just would prefer it be left as a memorial for the victims families and not for tourists.

You really should.

We did a tour of Northern Europe in 2012 and included the WW1 trenches, Dachau and Dresden.

They were extremely poignant and not at all touristy. (And much more moving than the holocaust memorial in Berlin).

We felt taking the kids to such sites was an important part of their education in life, and we all felt truly humbled.

May we always remember.

Mr ddc"
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Were all different but I don't wish to visit nor take my children.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Unfortunately this kind of thing has occurred several times since then and it is happening today in Africa and the Middle East. The scale may be smaller, but for those involved the tragedy is just as great.

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That's a bit of an over simplification, done to fit in with your personal stance!

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"This might sound odd but i don't think I'll ever go there, something's are too grim to be used as tourist attractions even if it's educational.

Nobody left Hiroshima as rubble as a reminder of the horror of nuclear weapons or Dresden in ashes.

I just would prefer it be left as a memorial for the victims families and not for tourists."

think you have a slanted _iew on this, the word 'tourism' is not the reason many visit these memorials..

whilst i accept there will be some for whom its a 'tick in the box' on their itinerary..

the stark reality of the structures tells the story far better than an empty field with a sign saying here stood whatever..

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By *ollycouple71Couple
over a year ago

manchester

Maybe if we had looked at what they done prior to that and what they did to the disabled and infirm they killed a lot of them before they started on the Jews so if you was a burden to the state it curtains for you

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

Pastor Niemoller's words are as true today as they were when he wrote them..

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I really want to visit but I'm not sure if I could hold it together "

I apreciate your point but i don't want to be able to hold it together. I never want to feel hardened towards this tragedy, I want my internal barometer always to be filled with horror at the reality of what happened.

If that means tears then those tears will remind me that I am more of a man than those who carried out this mass murder.

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over a year ago

"This might sound odd but i don't think I'll ever go there, something's are too grim to be used as tourist attractions even if it's educational.

Nobody left Hiroshima as rubble as a reminder of the horror of nuclear weapons or Dresden in ashes.

I just would prefer it be left as a memorial for the victims families and not for tourists.

think you have a slanted _iew on this, the word 'tourism' is not the reason many visit these memorials..

whilst i accept there will be some for whom its a 'tick in the box' on their itinerary..

the stark reality of the structures tells the story far better than an empty field with a sign saying here stood whatever..

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.That's not a personal criticism of people who choose to go for there reason but unfortunately there'll always be a certain amount of the rubber neckers in life.

I personally wouldn't want to take my children to grim places of horror, I just don't see what it gains them other than a sense of the macabre.

And I did say I would like it to remain as a shrine for relatives who were affected but not as a tourist attraction.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I really want to visit but I'm not sure if I could hold it together "

My daughter and myself have been planning to go for a few years now but when it actually comes to booking it we bottle it and say maybe next year. We will go one day though. Mrs P is adamant she won't come.

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By *obbytupperMan
over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley

"The inquisitive mind of a child"

poppyWhy are they selling poppies, Mummy?

Selling poppies in town today.

The poppies, child, are flowers of love.

For the men who marched away.

But why have they chosen a poppy, Mummy?

Why not a beautiful rose?

Because my child, men fought and died

In the fields where the poppies grow.

But why are the poppies so red, Mummy?

Why are the poppies so red?

Red is the colour of blood, my child.

The blood that our soldiers shed.

poppyThe heart of the poppy is black, Mummy.

Why does it have to be black?

Black, my child, is the symbol of grief.

For the men who never came back.

But why, Mummy are you crying so?

Your tears are giving you pain.

My tears are my fears for you my child.

For the world is forgetting again.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Many years ago I was working on the war graves commission in germany and spent several weeks tending to the graves of the fallen with representatives of every nation involved.

One day we travelled to the nearest concentration camp and it became very obvious how we as a nation had been protected from this horror. Most people in the group knew of or had contact with a family that had been affected by the camps.

It was a very emotional day and the atmosphere was very eerie, to know what horrors had been visited there was chilling.

The important thing is to remember that this happened 'lest we forget'

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

May the passings of 6 million innocents never be forgotten.

I salute their courage always

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By *ike4362ukMan
over a year ago

Cheshunt

Whilst working in various places I have been able to visit a few sites. Dachau and Belsen in Germany and Oradour-sur-glane in France. Utterly grim places, but essential places to commemorate the dead and remind the living.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"May the passings of 6 million innocents never be forgotten.

I salute their courage always

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What about the other 5 million!.

You know they nearly murdered as many non Jews as Jews!

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

"May the passings of 6 million innocents never be forgotten.

I salute their courage always

What about the other 5 million!.

You know they nearly murdered as many non Jews as Jews!"

Thanks for picking me up

May the passings of 11 millions innocents never be forgotten

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Visiting Tyne cote is an extremely moving experience. I would like(like not really appropriate) to one of the main concentration camps, I personally don't think you can truelly understand what they went through without going

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"May the passings of 6 million innocents never be forgotten.

I salute their courage always

What about the other 5 million!.

You know they nearly murdered as many non Jews as Jews!

Thanks for picking me up

May the passings of 11 millions innocents never be forgotten

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My fault Im just angry today

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"May the passings of 6 million innocents never be forgotten.

I salute their courage always

What about the other 5 million!.

You know they nearly murdered as many non Jews as Jews!"

But none of them were murdered just for having been born to their parents.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"May the passings of 6 million innocents never be forgotten.

I salute their courage always

What about the other 5 million!.

You know they nearly murdered as many non Jews as Jews!

But none of them were murdered just for having been born to their parents."
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Yeah some were murdered for being polish or Russian or disabled or just stupid some were even murdered for being Romanian, which is just crazy because they make great lap dancers

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

I can't watch or listen to holocaust stories. The survivors are just so amazing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I can't watch or listen to holocaust stories. The survivors are just so amazing. "
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I just listened to Freddie knoller on five live, very enlightening, inspiring and entertaining

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"This might sound odd but i don't think I'll ever go there, something's are too grim to be used as tourist attractions even if it's educational.

Nobody left Hiroshima as rubble as a reminder of the horror of nuclear weapons or Dresden in ashes.

I just would prefer it be left as a memorial for the victims families and not for tourists.

think you have a slanted _iew on this, the word 'tourism' is not the reason many visit these memorials..

whilst i accept there will be some for whom its a 'tick in the box' on their itinerary..

the stark reality of the structures tells the story far better than an empty field with a sign saying here stood whatever..

.That's not a personal criticism of people who choose to go for there reason but unfortunately there'll always be a certain amount of the rubber neckers in life.

I personally wouldn't want to take my children to grim places of horror, I just don't see what it gains them other than a sense of the macabre.

And I did say I would like it to remain as a shrine for relatives who were affected but not as a tourist attraction."

I took my daughter to Terezin aged 15. I thought it was important for her to see for herself the result of hatred.

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

the news coverage is so moving, the dignity on the faces

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"the news coverage is so moving, the dignity on the faces

I know it made me cry.

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

"the news coverage is so moving, the dignity on the faces

I know it made me cry. "

me as well

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By *reeneyes0290730Man
over a year ago

Midlands mostly

The sheer number people who lost their lives in that amount of time is astonishing. Have been watching the programmes recently about it which some showed actual footage.... Totally numbing and the sense of how many things we take for granted now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Siedemdziesiat lat.

70 years...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As somebody who has a degree in history and has visitd many concentration camps, this is a subject close to my heart. It's a very sad day, but I'm glad tgere are people who remember. There's far too many kids out there today who just don't care... I know, I teach a lot of them! C x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"As somebody who has a degree in history and has visitd many concentration camps, this is a subject close to my heart. It's a very sad day, but I'm glad tgere are people who remember. There's far too many kids out there today who just don't care... I know, I teach a lot of them! C x"
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That's because their 13,14,15 , they have their whole life's ahead of them! and they were born in 2000 lol that's like asking my generation to respect the Napoleonic wars, each generation puts upon the next their own values and beliefs, I remember my parents putting ww2 on me and I was thinking, what that's years ago this is 1979, man what a drag.

I appreciate it now with age, history is one of those subjects that you get more into the older you get.

Personally I think kids these days appreciate and understand things alot better than my generation.

Let them have their childhood with fun and laughter, there's plenty of time to fill their adulthood with the grimmer bits of life.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

yeap 70 years n people are still full of hate and bigotry,homophobia abounds even on a site like this,,stop hating

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Maybe its just the ones that you teach, I know of lots of kids who do care.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Listening to the radio on the way home a survivor was recounting to his grandson his time in the concentration camps ,by the end I was wiping away the tears ,I find it impossible not to be moved by their stories

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Listening to the radio on the way home a survivor was recounting to his grandson his time in the concentration camps ,by the end I was wiping away the tears ,I find it impossible not to be moved by their stories "

I know, I feel realy down after seeing it on bbc news.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Err I think u forgot it's happened many times since.

Sabrha and satella death camps in Lebanon in the 80's where the christian drews n Jews butchered Palestinians.

Oh u didn't remember that one.

Wat about sebraneca camp in bosnia in the 90'S when the serbs butchered men, women n children because the were muslim.

Ever heard of the gulags in ussr.

Death camps in congo

Mass ethnic cleansing caused by the partition of india.

No probably because they weren't white people dying.

What about the extermination of the native Americans.

Ever heard of Australian aborigines.

must be wonderful to have such a selective memory.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's all so sad and my heart is hurting just reading this thread. Lovely people on here group hug anyone?

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By *icked weaselCouple
over a year ago

Near Edinburgh..

"Let them have their childhood with fun and laughter, there's plenty of time to fill their adulthood with the grimmer bits of life.

My Kid Actually fell out of a tree Today.. I was So Proud..

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Err I think u forgot it's happened many times since.

Sabrha and satella death camps in Lebanon in the 80's where the christian drews n Jews butchered Palestinians.

Oh u didn't remember that one.

Wat about sebraneca camp in bosnia in the 90'S when the serbs butchered men, women n children because the were muslim.

Ever heard of the gulags in ussr.

Death camps in congo

Mass ethnic cleansing caused by the partition of india.

No probably because they weren't white people dying.

What about the extermination of the native Americans.

Ever heard of Australian aborigines.

must be wonderful to have such a selective memory. "

I don't believe anyone on this thread has 'forgotten' that there have been numerous horrendous atrocities before and after Auschwitz. I see no evidence of selective memories.

I mean no disrespect to you but I find it distasteful that you could remotely suggest that people's grief in a thread like this may be rooted in their race or the race of those who were killed.

This is surely a time to rise above the black or white debate.

Hate doesn't distinguish between ethnicity, some people who use hate do.

Grief also doesn't distinguish, maybe we should keep it that way.

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

Maybe its just the ones that you teach, I know of lots of kids who do care.

It's a strange old day when you and I agree on something!

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By *carineMan
over a year ago

Armthorpe, Doncaster

I doubt many people from Gaza will be visiting.

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"Err I think u forgot it's happened many times since.

Sabrha and satella death camps in Lebanon in the 80's where the christian drews n Jews butchered Palestinians.

Oh u didn't remember that one.

Wat about sebraneca camp in bosnia in the 90'S when the serbs butchered men, women n children because the were muslim.

Ever heard of the gulags in ussr.

Death camps in congo

Mass ethnic cleansing caused by the partition of india.

No probably because they weren't white people dying.

What about the extermination of the native Americans.

Ever heard of Australian aborigines.

must be wonderful to have such a selective memory.

I don't believe anyone on this thread has 'forgotten' that there have been numerous horrendous atrocities before and after Auschwitz. I see no evidence of selective memories.

I mean no disrespect to you but I find it distasteful that you could remotely suggest that people's grief in a thread like this may be rooted in their race or the race of those who were killed.

This is surely a time to rise above the black or white debate.

Hate doesn't distinguish between ethnicity, some people who use hate do.

Grief also doesn't distinguish, maybe we should keep it that way. "

Wasn't the reason for the thread the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz? Don't see what the Australian Aborigines have to do about that.

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By *oo hotCouple
over a year ago

North West

"Err I think u forgot it's happened many times since.

Sabrha and satella death camps in Lebanon in the 80's where the christian drews n Jews butchered Palestinians.

Oh u didn't remember that one.

Wat about sebraneca camp in bosnia in the 90'S when the serbs butchered men, women n children because the were muslim.

Ever heard of the gulags in ussr.

Death camps in congo

Mass ethnic cleansing caused by the partition of india.

No probably because they weren't white people dying.

What about the extermination of the native Americans.

Ever heard of Australian aborigines.

must be wonderful to have such a selective memory.

I don't believe anyone on this thread has 'forgotten' that there have been numerous horrendous atrocities before and after Auschwitz. I see no evidence of selective memories.

I mean no disrespect to you but I find it distasteful that you could remotely suggest that people's grief in a thread like this may be rooted in their race or the race of those who were killed.

This is surely a time to rise above the black or white debate.

Hate doesn't distinguish between ethnicity, some people who use hate do.

Grief also doesn't distinguish, maybe we should keep it that way.

Wasn't the reason for the thread the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz? Don't see what the Australian Aborigines have to do about that. "

Because you will always get a troll or two who will post a contrary opinion on a thread that has the ability to become controversial. It is attention seeking.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"Err I think u forgot it's happened many times since.

Sabrha and satella death camps in Lebanon in the 80's where the christian drews n Jews butchered Palestinians.

Oh u didn't remember that one.

Wat about sebraneca camp in bosnia in the 90'S when the serbs butchered men, women n children because the were muslim.

Ever heard of the gulags in ussr.

Death camps in congo

Mass ethnic cleansing caused by the partition of india.

No probably because they weren't white people dying.

What about the extermination of the native Americans.

Ever heard of Australian aborigines.

must be wonderful to have such a selective memory.

I don't believe anyone on this thread has 'forgotten' that there have been numerous horrendous atrocities before and after Auschwitz. I see no evidence of selective memories.

I mean no disrespect to you but I find it distasteful that you could remotely suggest that people's grief in a thread like this may be rooted in their race or the race of those who were killed.

This is surely a time to rise above the black or white debate.

Hate doesn't distinguish between ethnicity, some people who use hate do.

Grief also doesn't distinguish, maybe we should keep it that way. "

this..

bit sad that someone should try and slant what is after all people's genuine thoughts on the atrocity that the holocaust was..

that anyone would ignore the obvious that if this were a thread about other genocides then the same posters would most likely contribute also..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"70 years ago tomorrow the Russians liberated the survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp.

A tragic chapter in history that reminds us of man's inhumanity to man.

Always remember what hate is capable of and guard against it.

We must never forget nor allow our future generations not to learn about what happened and realise it must never ever be allowed to happen again."

We should also remember acts of indiscriminate hatred/violence often stem from the smallest of grievances and intollerance! We don't have to agree with or condone the (legal) actions of our fellow man - but we should always accept and protect another human being's right to be different!

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