Subject: World commemorates death camp liberation
Posted by: ElusiveDream
Date: Jan 26 15
It's been 70 years since the liberation of the notorious Nazi-run Auschwitz death camp. More than 1,000,000 people, mostly Jews, died in this horrible place. If you weren't selected for execution upon arrival, you wouldn't have had much to look forward to. Prisoners were kept in appalling conditions, which usually resulted in death from either disease or starvation. It's amazing that some people were fortunate enough to survive their time in this camp.
Posted by: ElusiveDream
Date: Jan 26 15
It's been 70 years since the liberation of the notorious Nazi-run Auschwitz death camp. More than 1,000,000 people, mostly Jews, died in this horrible place. If you weren't selected for execution upon arrival, you wouldn't have had much to look forward to. Prisoners were kept in appalling conditions, which usually resulted in death from either disease or starvation. It's amazing that some people were fortunate enough to survive their time in this camp.
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Lpez
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We must preserve the memory of this event forever, amazingly there are still some people out there that deny it. Never again. Reply #1. Jan 26 15, 5:47 PM |
jolana 
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I normally avoid books and films about Auschwitz, but Art Spiegelman´s comics Maus caught my heart. I can only recommend this book to everyone. Reply #2. Jan 26 15, 6:07 PM |
ElusiveDream
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One survivor was Otto Frank, whose daughter, Anne, became famous after the publication of her diary, which detailed the time the family spent hiding from Nazi persecution. Reply #3. Jan 26 15, 11:17 PM |
paulmallon
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It's incomprehensible to me that some people truly (?) believe the holocaust never happened. Reply #4. Feb 01 15, 7:48 PM |
tweedle2
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It's incomprehensible to me that some people truly (?) believe the holocaust never happened. And me Reply #5. Feb 01 15, 7:58 PM |
Mommakat
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Oh! It happened alright. Both of my husbands were prisoners in concentrations camps, one in Europe and the other in the Pacific theatre of war. You would not have needed to tell them it didn't happen. Reply #6. Feb 01 15, 9:43 PM |
Shiningstar7
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That's right, never again, horrendous. Reply #7. Feb 05 15, 9:35 PM |
| Shiningstar7
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Thankful they are honoured by the commemoration. Very sad to contemplate. Glad I wasn't born during that time. Reply #8. Feb 05 15, 9:37 PM |
callie_ross
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I recently watched "Schindler's List" for the first time & I was horrified at the treatment of the victims! Of course I have heard about the Holocaust before but I've never actually seen a movie about it. So very sad & it never should have been allowed to happen! :( Reply #9. Feb 05 15, 10:22 PM |
| ElusiveDream
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I, personally, haven't read it, but has anyone here read Anne Frank's diary? Reply #10. Feb 27 15, 12:10 AM |
supersal1
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I've tried, but I can't get past the first chapter or so, I just get so upset thinking about what happened to her and of course the millions of other people. Reply #11. Feb 27 15, 1:21 AM |
| ElusiveDream
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Recent research suggests Anne and her sister died at least a month earlier than first thought. As far as I'm aware, Anne's official date of death was given as being March 31st, 1945, but it now seems more likely they both died some time in February. Reply #12. Apr 04 15, 7:14 PM |
MiraJane
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I read Anne Franks diary years ago in 7th or 8th grade. It was an assigned book. We had To Kill a Mockingbird that year too. Reply #13. Apr 05 15, 12:56 AM |
| ElusiveDream
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Those who still think the Holocaust never happened are kidding themselves. Try telling concentration camp survivors that what they saw and went through never happened! They'll tell you otherwise. And think for a moment what it must have been like for the children who ended up in these horrible places, everyday watching people die, either from disease or execution. Try telling THEM that what they saw wasn't real! Reply #14. Apr 22 15, 12:10 AM |
| lesley153
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Nazi PR showed inmates of the death camps, relaxing happily, with good and abundant food, and playing or listening to music. On arriving at the death camps, Dwight Eisenhower ordered his men to take as many photographs as possible. He guessed that there would be people who'd deny that any of this happened, and wanted "to be in a position from then on to testify about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief … that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda." No, I haven't read Anne Frank's Diary either. I can barely face watching Fiddler on the Roof. Reply #15. Apr 22 15, 7:39 AM |
hermet
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I have never been able to read Anne Franks Diary just because it is just too painful to comprehend that our fellow humans are capable of such evil. Reply #16. Apr 28 15, 10:21 PM |
| ElusiveDream
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A rather sad discovery has been made during an archaeological excavation at the site of the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland: jewellery that once belonged to Jewish prisoners. Among the items is a pendant that bears a close resemblance to one that was owned by Anne Frank. It's thought that this is the location where victims were forced to undress and have their heads shaved before being sent into the gas chambers. Reply #17. Jan 15 17, 10:24 PM |
| ElusiveDream
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Here's a link to website regarding the Holocaust. Among the things on this site are videos of survivors describing what life was like in the various camps including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. http://tinyurl.com/k9reznx Reply #18. Apr 03 17, 11:27 PM |
VBookWorm
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I read Anne Frank's diary when I was eight, in 3rd grade. I loved it! Reply #19. Feb 08 23, 8:55 PM |
Cymruambyth
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My uncle was one of the British and Canadian soldiers who liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945. Uncle Griff told us many stories about his experiences during theSecond World War, but he never spoke of Bergen-Belsen. What he had seen there haunted him for the rest of his life. BBC commentator Richard Dimbleby accompanied the liberators, and his description of that day helps me to understand why Uncle Griff could not speak about it. Read it and weep: "...Here over one acre of ground lay dead and dying people. You could not see which was which... The living lay with their heads against the corpses, and around them moved the awful, ghostly procession of emaciated, aimless people, with nothing to do and no hope of life; unable to move out of your way, unable to look at the terrible sights around them...Babies had been born here, tiny wizened things that could not live...A mother, driven mad, screamed at a British sentry to give her milk for her child and thrust the tiny mite into his arms, then ran off crying terribly. He opened the bundle and found the baby had been dead for days...This day at Belsen was the most horrible of my life!" Reply #20. Oct 22 23, 9:01 AM |
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