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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-23-07 11:36 PM
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My grandfather was in the Holocaust
He survived, and passed away in 2001. (Just before 9/11)
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-23-07 11:39 PM
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1. Wow, was he
in a concentration camp?

If so which one?

I visited Dachau, it wasn't used for the gas chambers but they housed prisoners there and I am pretty sure they did medical experiments there. At any rate I could feel the evil that had been there. It was very emotional

I am awed at those who survived the holocaust. And totally blown away that anyone could ever deny that it happened :wtf:, and :grr:

I wonder what he would say about our country today? Would it remind him of pre holocaust Nazi Germany?

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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-23-07 11:40 PM
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2. Auschwitz
Edited on Sat Jun-23-07 11:41 PM by HawkeyeX
He was liberated in 1945. My dad was born 2 years later in a Displaced Camp near Hamburg, Germany

And yes, he made a Shoah tape, I'm still bugging my parents to get it captioned so I can see it.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 05:32 PM
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3. Geez,
that is just so inconceivable that people can be so horrid, yet, I fear it is still happening in this world today.

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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 05:41 PM
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4. My mother had many first cousins of in the Army during WWII who spoke German and Czech.
I remember my Grandmother talking about two of them being sent to the camps to translate.

She remembers seeing photos that one them had taken.

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