Tell us about your local Holocaust commemoration. How will you remember?
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NameLisa Deal2009-04-15 10:04 PM |
LocationKansasMessageAs a high school English teacher, my small freshmen class is reading "The Diary of Anne Frank", "Night", and "Yellow Star" along with researching and viewing the USHMM website. I tell my students nearly every day that they are responsible for keeping the memory of the holocaust alive and giving recognition to those who perished so that others might not have to. It is imperative that I establish responsibility with my students by voice and by example. |
NameGeri2009-04-15 08:33 PM |
LocationFLMessageGrowing up as a daughter of a Holocaust survivor, I have always felt so strong a connection, and also a yearning for more facts about what took place during that time in history. My father's stories were both captivating and horrifying, and his stories made me want to learn more. I was fortunate to have the opportunity in college, taking classes with Elie Wiesel, and my thirst for information was stimulated even further. This subject has always remained close to my heart and part of who I am. Reading these comments this evening makes me wish I had an opportunity to respond to the people, young and not so young, who have shared their thoughts and feelings here. My son, now 20, understands his history, but I still want so much to share the history with other young people so they can learn (if anyone can possibly understand) the horrific facts of what transpired during the Holocaust. If only they could also use that knowledge to not only understand, but react, to what is happening in our world today. Genocide did not stop or end in 1945; quite the contrary. Learning and understanding about the Holocaust can only help plant the seeds for an awareness, perhaps an alertness, of what is going on in our world right now. Somehow we must continue to raise consciousness in a way that will positively impact us all on a global level. |
NameLisa Moore2009-04-15 04:41 PM |
LocationNorway, MaineMessageOur community will hold its fourth Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 7pm at the Norway Memorial Library in Norway, MaineEach year, we try to do something different. This year, we will watch PAPER CLIPS, the inspiring documentary film that captures how students in Whitwell, Tennessee in 1998 responded to lessons about the Holocaust. They promised to honor every lost soul by collecting one paper clip for each individual exterminated by the Nazis. The story is an unforgettable lesson of how a committed group of children and educators can change the world one classroom at a time. A half-hour discussion will follow. FMI locally, Lisa: 207-743-9808 or m3d@megalink.net |
NameEva2009-04-07 11:16 AM |
LocationBerlinMessageGrowing up in Germany, I've been raised to always be aware of the Shoah and the happenings of WWII. I have researched a lot about it during my university studies and thus I got involved in a project that tries to commemorate the Jewish heritage of a small Belorusian town by publishing a city guide. It is our goal to describe the places as they were when the town's Jewish population was still close to 50%. Today all these memories are seemingly wiped out and no one really remembers. We are trying to reconstruct the city's history and inscribe the places of Jewish life with all layers of the past.I've come to learn that commemoration is actually something that has to be actively pursued in order to never forgot what happened and learn from it. |
NameDivya B.R.2009-04-03 06:18 PM |
LocationWisconsinMessageI am an officer for my Model United nations group at my high school. For Holocaust Rememberance Day, we are holding a meeting where I will be giving a presentation about the Holocaust and then my fellow officers will be talking about examples of other genocides and how we can prevent this. We will also be holding a moment of silence and lighting 8 candles for the approx. number of people who died (including non-Jews).I am also giving a speech about the hidden children during the Holocaust for my english class and writing an article for the school newspaper. I've never talk to a survivor before and I REALLY want to. I'm thinking about contacting the Chicago Holocaust Museum and seeing if they are holding a service. I wish i could go to the Washington Holocaust museum but its too far (obviously) If anybody can help me out, that would be appreciated greatly! |
Namejohn curtin2009-04-01 09:20 PM |
Locationn/aMessageHi im John Curtin and i go to a middle school and were having a remembrence day at my school and were gonna meet real live holocaust survivors. And later in life when i have kids there will be no survivors of the Holocaust my teacher told me that and she said that when you have kids it is important that you pass it on to your children so that we can prevent it from happening again. Thank you for you time |
NameKaren Warburton2009-03-20 03:11 PM |
LocationSilver Spring, MDMessageI believe that one of the most important things to remember is how quickly and easily innocent, hard-working and kind people can be unknowingly used and manipulated to believe in the righteousness of hate toward any living creature. Each of us has the responsibility, the right and the freedom to search our own souls and act on the good we find there. I pray that we all find the strength to do so. |
NameGail Ostrow2009-03-16 05:33 PM |
LocationBrdigeport, CTMessageOur congregation will gather to listen to survivors and watch the movie Tak for Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit. Hopefully, we will be moved to honor those who died in the Shoah and those who survived by working to end the genocide in Darfur and other injustices around the world. What we do matters--so we must do something. |
Namecarmen2009-03-12 05:10 PM |
LocationFlMessageWhen I think of the Holocaust I think of the Ten Boom Family from Holland. They too saved many Jews because of their love for them. Her Sister, father perished in the concentration camp. Corrie lived and was until her death an inspiration to all. Her favorite quote was there is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper. |
NameLeon Berkowitz2009-02-22 05:21 PM |
LocationLithuaniaMessageI survived the Holocaust...I witnessed the death of my father, his last words were "Yield the Kaddish under my name". Never will I forget his shrunken face under the shroud of the moonlit night... This was at the final march from Buna back to Auschwitz...our death place. |