Tell us about your local Holocaust commemoration. How will you remember?
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NameFaolchu2009-02-18 04:20 PM |
LocationOhioMessageI recently published a blog posting on my website indicating Miep Gies's birthday celebration of 100 years! This is what I said about Miep Gies and about why we should remember the Holocaust:From a previous post, you all know how deeply important the Holocaust of World War II is to me. Recently, on February 15th, Miep Gies celebrated her 100th birthday. An e-mail Vixen sent to me recently was entitled "Someone to Celebrate...” Indeed, Miep Gies is someone to celebrate. Not only has this woman had the courage to live on this earth for 100 years, but she also had the courage to help Anne Frank and her family to hide from the Nazi regime. The Frank family hid successfully for 25 months until someone informed the Gestapo of the Frank family's whereabouts. Anne Frank subsequently passed away from complications related to Typhus at the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in March of 1945. Miep Gies gathered and kept Anne's diary papers in hopes that Anne would return. The rest, of course, is history and in 1947, Otto Frank (Anne's father) published Anne's diary. It was re-titled "The Diary of a Young Girl" in 1952 and released in the English language. Later the title would become the book we younger ones remember from reading in High School literature courses: The Diary of Anne Frank. Miep Gies, we love you for the kind heart that you have and for aiding those in need of a safe haven. On a side note: There are those who wish for people to believe that the Holocaust never happened and it is not just Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, who wishes this. There are many others, including my own late Grandpa "Bud" (as much as I love my grandfather, his thinking was faulty and I think he knows this now). We must NOT forget...We must ALWAYS remember...for some of the same people who say the Holocaust did not happen are the same people who wish that a much greater Holocaust would happen again. Always remember the people who were lost and the atrocities that were committed against them. If we remember, if we take it upon ourselves to FEEL the pain, we can stop this from coming to fruition again. We have the will to change hearts! In Love and Frith, Faolchu |