Remembering the Holocaust
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This morning the sirens blew and everything stopped in Israel for one minute as the population were reminded of the dead who lost their lives sixty-seven years ago in an extermination attempt driven by Adolf Hitler of Germany. This madness lasted for years and by the time it was over six million Jews had fallen in the most determined attempt to wipe out a group of people off the face of the earth ever attempted.
Most of the images I found were too ghastly to post (at least for me) in this hub. Today we have new terrorists and leaders arising who would like to make us believe that this event never happened. Such vicious people should not be allowed to rise to leadership position because nothing good will come of such leadership.
Masterpiece Theatre played The Diary of Anne Frank on Sunday night. I found myself mesmerized and unable to move on so I watched the entire program. All the people who lived in that attic room away from the world for two years died in prison camps except for Otto Frank. Anne Frank was his daughter. Imagine living more than thirty years after such a loss with only the memories of a family left behind. Otto Frank died in 1980.
After watching this movie based on Anne Frank's diary, these people were so real to me that I find myself unable to let them go. These were real people, with real hopes and dreams. Anne Frank hoped to grow up to be a writer and live a very modern lifestyle. Margot Frank had a dream of going to live and work in Palestine. All hopes and dreams were lost.
We should learn the lessons of the Holocaust so that such a thing will never happen again. And yet...I know that it is only a matter of time before another evil monster will arise with death and destruction on his mind. This is the world in which we live. We pride ourselves on how far we have come, but underneath there is still that spark of evil that raises its head from time to time to remind us...
Images of the Holocaust
- Remembering the Holocaust
Ways to remember the Holocaust - Yom HaShoah: Remembering the Holocaust
65 years after the liberation of Buchenwald, Jews worldwide remember the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah. - Holocaust Cybrary remembering the Stories of the Survivors - Remember.org
A Cybrary of the Holocaust is an educational forum bringing together Holocaust survivors, descendants, art by children, educational efforts, and Books by Survivors to promote learning and remembering. - Holocaust
Why We Should Study the Holocaust. - Remembering the Holocaust
Discussion about the real reason for the holocaust.
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Thank you for reading and commenting, Tony. I find myself thinking about this all day today and remembering that teenage girl, Anne Frank. Worth remembering! Shalom!
Smireles,
These are truly horrible images almost too much to bear seeing. But we must remember or we will repeat history. it could even happen here.
Tom, it is so true. We must not let our children forget. There is the danger.
Smireles, I am glad you wrote this hub as we should never forget the horrible atrocities that the Jews suffered. Good hub.
Thank you, Pamela
Thanks so much for publishing this article on the Holocaust. A horrible atrocity that should have never been.
I myself came across a Holocaust Memorial, not too long ago and was shaken for many days thereafter. It's hard for anyone to fathom how an atrocity of this nature even got off the ground.
Your writing serves as a reminder and a tribute to all of those wonderful, people whose family members and friends were taken.
Sage
Thank you, Sage. You are so right. I find myself in a thoughtful mood and am having difficulty shaking the horror of this atrocity. We must remember!
Much of the remnant of European Jewry went to live in Israel. Today they see that America, under Obama, is no longer a friend. Israel is alone to protect a people the world turned their backs on in the last century and again in this one. Israel is in great danger.
Thank you, SheilaB. I also believe that Israel is in great danger. Us too...
Thank you for keeping the memories alive for this generation.
This much cruelty is hard for me to take in. Great hub!
This hub was so real, smireless. I cried as I read over your words and saw your pictures and thought of the thousands of lives lost because of such evil hatred. Thank you so much for this tribute to those lost lives and for reminding us of this tragic time in history. God bless you!
If we don't remember history it is likely to repeat itself. The free world should never allow such human atrocities to ever occur again. But this is precisely the devil's plan, may we stand and speak out against hatred and have mercy just as Jesus had mercy upon us, even when we didn't deserve it.
I can't even begin to comprehend how people really believe that this awful event never took place. I remember reading Anne Frank when I was younger. There is also another true story that took place during this time called The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom.
Thanks for this hub and for the reminder that we must never forget.
Thank you, Ann and djbramen for your comments. I found this remembrance to be an emotional experience.
Cari Jean, I have read The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom and I thank you for remind me. We must never forget.
Thank you for this reminder, remember it is the horror of it all that keeps it from happening again, so, those pictures that are most horrid are the ones that need to be seen so as not to be forgotten so it won't happen again. After so many years goes by and if the next generation does not see the pictures, only the stories, they won't know the real visions of wars and keep going on, because the youth not knowing the reality of war, keep going to war! We need to make sure the next generation know the reality by seeing the pictures of it. It is sad that we must keep showing the pictures so the reality of it will make it all stop one day.
the reality touching the heart of all peoples!
Thank you for visiting me so that I could come to visit you.
Thank you, Sa'ge! I think people need to see those images, too, but I really could not post them! Images of people piled high and looking like skeletons! People should look for these images because they are available on the internet but they are dreadfully hard to look at. Thank you for reading and responding.
We must never forget! There is a wonderful Holocaust Museum in Houston which we have visited.
thanks for this moving hub, I was in a community in Israel with some people from the holocaust. It was really hard for them
The Diary of Anne Frank was required reading in school when I was an eighth grade student. It had a chilling effect...I was 13, I was the child of a Polish family. I am here only because my grandparents emigrated from Poland to the US in 1929. All of their relatives (none of them Jewish) were exterminated.
The holocaust needs to be remembered every day. Because it can happen again.
In 1970 I visited Amsterdam and stayed at the Anne Frank Student Hostel, across the street from the clock chimes that Anne wrote about. I visited the house where she spent those years in hiding. I saw the Dutch porcelain toilet bowl.
Anne Frank's diary should be mandatory reading for every adolescent child in every place in the world. When war is waged, the children are ripped from their futures.
Thank you for keeping this message alive.
Thank you, Sally's Trove for reading and telling us about your visit to Amsterdam. After I watched the Masterpiece Theater version of the Anne Frank story I was unable to get it out of my mind for several weeks. I agree that it should be mandatory reading for all young people.
Great hub, so sad a time, your pictures speak volumes! As hard as it was, thank you for sharing!
Thank you for reading and commenting, ladybird33!
Very well written, and the photos were right on time.
You know... I can understand one man being so full of hate, as Hitler was. But I can't even begin to understand how a nation would stand behind him, As Germany did! I have never understood.
I realize that there were people who risked their own lives to help others. But without the majority of the people in Germany, Hitler would have never had the power to implement such a wicked plan.
That's what baffels me.
I agree with you. Perhaps it happened slowly and the people did not know what to do when the really bad things started to happen... I could be wrong. It is a mystery! Shocking!
tonymac04 2 years ago
Thanks for this timely reminder. Indeed it should never happen again, and yet, as you say, man's inhumanity to man continues. I visited a concentration camp in Germany many years ago now and was deeply moved by the experience.
I know too that there are other places where such horrors have taken place but we know less about them, for various reasons. But we should continue to struggle and witness against racism and genocide wherever they might occur. They are actions not worthy of us as humans.
Thanks for sharing
Love and peace - shalom
Tony