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Nancy Ann Wolicki Date
July 26, 2007 12:08 AM |
My father was a decorated military officer in WW2 and also a camp liberator. My mother was Russain Jewish home in states during the war. Some of her family that didn't get to the states before the war, died in Buchenwald. The photos my father broght home of the victims of this atrocity are gut wrenching. No living creature should be subjected to this vile treatment. Where were the people of Germany? Only did they see this after liberation when 'they' were forced to walk through the camps and see what their so called glorious leader did to innocent human beings, did they realize what was going on. I wonder if it even effected them then. It is just a shame that Hitler died a coward and didn't pay for his sins. I am sure he is rotting in hell now. |
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Stacey L. Finnigan-Wright Date
July 25, 2007 03:44 PM |
As a person of the Native American tribes and Jewish,my heart bleeds for the staggering loss of life for both our peoples. As a student of History; I know that we can learn from our mistakes that often takes generations to understand why these things happened in the first place. For every life that has been snuffed out, for every brother,sister,mother,father, aunt,uncle and loved ones we must shout from the highest mountain"NEVER AGAIN!" or we haven't learned a thing. When sharing the sorrows and the joys of the USHM please remember that the Holocaust may be over but in other countries freedom has yet to be won. The lives of 6,000,000 plus must not be in vain. |
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bethany smith Date
July 13, 2007 07:26 AM |
I personally believe the ushmm is doing a great thing for not only this country but also the world by educating people about what injustice happend during ww2 toward the Jewish people. It helps them realize what a great country we live in and how lucky we are to live during this point in time in history. When I worked in a nursing home here in Bellefontaine Ohio I was helping a resident put on her shirt, I looked down at her arm and saw a number tattooed on her arm and I got goose bumps because I realized what it was. This woman was in her 80's and had an extremely thick Polish accent. With hesitation I asked her which camp and she said I believe it was Dachau, but as time went on she would tll me tid bit of info. To me it was an honor just to be in her presence. I mean this woman was witness to some of the worst crimes against humanity in history extreme hate and just to think she was still mentally sound I just can't even fathom what she had seen and can't imagine the horors of seeing what she lived first hand. I want you to know I really appreciate every thing this museum represents and how you not only remember the dead but honor the survivors thank you not only as a citizen of the USA but as a human being. |
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Danae Connolly Date
July 03, 2007 02:32 AM |
When I think of the Holocaust I feel sick, all those lives that were ended for what? Purity? I can't even imagine what they went through, reading about it doesn't give you the feeling of living that nightmare. It informs you but you don't truly understand the barbaric nature that was used back then. I hate the Nazis for what they did to those people and I will never forgive them and their methods of purity, to kill all those people and not have any remorse of what they did. And the survivors, what audacity to survive. I admire them all, the ones who survived and the ones that weren't so lucky, the ones who were able to tell their stories. I'm glad that I know of this horrible event, so that it could not be repeated. That was a horrible event, and I'm so disgusted that it happened and I'm so glad that there are museums to educate those about tolerance and prejudice. I'm not Jewish but I feel for what they went through even though I really haven't a clue about how they suffered as they fought to survive and how they suffered as they watched their loved ones ripped from their arms and never heard of again. Thank you for all of your stories. You are all my heroes. |
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Samantha Date
June 15, 2007 08:00 PM |
May the World be aware of the horrors that resulted from the evils of World War II. The more knowledge we have as humans the less we are to repeat the disasters that occured. God has a place in heaven for all of people who suffered so brutally. |
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Charlotte Luks Date
June 03, 2007 08:12 PM |
"yet from those flames no light, rather darkness, visible," we must look to the past as we face the future. We must ensure that our children know the horrific events that played such a role in defining us, so that they in turn can ensure that it never happens again. rest peacefully, m.l., j.l., t.l.. |
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Stilwell Jr. High Date
June 01, 2007 12:08 PM |
The pain, the suffering that these people had to go through. that time in history will last forever. the Holocaust has impacted me like no other, I can't imagine the kinda pain that these poor people had to go through.
So god have mercy on those people that have passed away from the Holocaust!!!!!!!!!! |
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Michelle Goldstein Date
May 24, 2007 01:26 AM |
Je recherche les membres de ma famille:
http://michelle-goldstein.blogspot.com |
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Steven Abram Date
May 23, 2007 10:23 PM |
For the Dead, we can only cry
For the Survivor, we can only
encourage them forward
For ouselves, we can only strive
to fulfill what should have
been. |
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lisa mackey Date
May 06, 2007 08:41 AM |
My mother loves Ellie Wiesels books. The Nite is her favorite. I asked her how cn you read so horrific, sad words. (because she reads it from time to time again). She said nobody should ever forget what happened . Men are capable of anything, even in this day and age. I remember myself reading some of Mr. Wiesels words and it talked about mans inhumanity to man. I will never forget what happened in the Holocaust, because it would almost be rude or something to the survivors or the people that was murdered. It just all makes me sad, but it makes me happy that people had survivored and went on and had families and loved. They survived at what cost to their hear and souls. I will never forget. Lisa |
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