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Mike 03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 05:44 PM Original message |
How hard it is to accept the fact of The Holocaust: my heart goes out to survivors. |
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wyldwolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
1. My wife's grandfather escaped from it. |
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eyesroll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
2. My paternal grandfather lost some relatives. |
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RexDart (106 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. Grandmother in law was an Armenian Genocide survivor. |
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AliceWonderland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. My beloved lost his paternal family, Hungarian Jews. His father was an |
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GentryDixon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
5. I have been to Dachau. |
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aceofspades (12 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
6. I saw Schindler's list. Made me cry |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:43 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. That movie was tough. Schindler was a brave brave man! |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 10:32 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. Schindler was a Nazi war profiteer who made money using slave labor and then somehow inexplicably |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 03:35 AM Response to Reply #23 |
36. He probably wouldn't have been able to save anybody if he hadn't been "inside" |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 06:07 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Heoes |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:13 PM Response to Reply #36 |
45. That's true: if he hadn't been a real dirtbag, he'd never have been a real hero |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 06:51 AM Response to Reply #23 |
40. Chiune Sugihara, The “Japanese Schindler” |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 04:11 PM Response to Reply #40 |
47. Thanks! What a great story! |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
7. My dad survived it |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
8. Thankfully two generations later we still discuss it. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
9. I had a client about 25 years ago when I was just starting practice - |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
10. I have no problem with Holocaust rememberence, |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:11 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. don't forget Armenia, either |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:45 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. It is unfortunately a huge part of human history. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:47 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. why this particular holocaust? several reasons. it's sadly singular |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 08:22 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. So in other words, the Holocaust has simply had better publicity |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 08:37 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. No. That's not what I said. I said it was basically |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 06:41 AM Response to Reply #20 |
39. I find your determination to try and force my opinions into your own mold quite interesting also |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 10:15 AM Response to Reply #39 |
43. i explained it to you. you seemingly purposefully miscontrued what I wrote. |
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Balbus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 08:50 PM Response to Reply #10 |
21. Relax. No one is telling you which holocaust to remember.. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 11:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
24. memorialize them all. this one was supposed to be the last, it was |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:06 AM Response to Reply #10 |
26. Exactly. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:30 AM Response to Reply #10 |
30. In a conference on many holocausts |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
12. I know of at least one DUer whose family was directly affected by it. |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
13. When I was little, |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
14. I do not know anyone that was affected. It is mind boggling though. |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
18. unfortunately, the holocaust was not a vaccination, it was a warning, that has repeatedly |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 08:52 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Absolutely spot on, Lerky. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:44 AM Response to Reply #18 |
31. I had a similar experience |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 09:56 AM Response to Reply #31 |
41. exactly. I was accused of being unpatriotic and a traitor for accurately predicting the future. |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:04 AM Response to Original message |
25. We should never forget that this was only one of many, many genocides |
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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:37 AM Response to Original message |
27. My grandmother's family was wiped out in Romania. Off topic,... it seems IBM was very involved in |
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sampsonblk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
28. Never let a holocaust denier get away with it |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:21 AM Response to Original message |
29. it was very cold-blooded, but I am not sure it is the worst |
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Peggesis1 (133 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Yeah it is; that process puts it in a catagory by itself |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:57 AM Response to Original message |
32. I attended a Yom Hashoah program/event on Tuesday |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 03:22 AM Response to Original message |
34. I remember, as a kid, seeing people with the numbers tattooed on their arms |
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Behind the Aegis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 03:26 AM Response to Reply #34 |
35. "that denial it happened was pretty much impossible." |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 06:20 AM Response to Original message |
38. A Major Part Of My Childhood... |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
42. There is no limit to what evil people will do. |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
44. On an exchange trip to Germany many years ago I discovered that the father of the family |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
46. The worst thing that ever happened in the history of the world |
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