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kimber ravenna high school Date
May 04, 2007 08:54 AM |
my class is researching this wonderful topic and i never thought that it would impact me so much. this topic that everyone is learning about it great. we are reading in our english class Night and its a real good book. then in history we are talking about it. |
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Barbara Date
April 29, 2007 02:22 PM |
Dear Mr. Wiesel,
I do not know you but God does. May you be consoled with the reassurance that you have not forgotten your beloved dead. Know that their lives have not been in vain, and that you will meet them and live together in God's Heaven. Please accept these few lines of poetry written by me upon watching and listening to you almost a year ago on the Oprah show.
Are There Words?
Their names are not listed as peace prize winners, noted scientists, famous artists, published writers or poets.
This they were denied.
Perhaps some names are even known only to our God.
For He suffered with them and know them He does ? each and every one.
In fact He knows them intimately.
He held them in their pain ? in the palm of His hand.
It has been called ?The Holocaust,? a time when millions died ?
your brethren, families and friends
Are there words to describe it?
Perhaps there are none.
But be consoled you must - you who live on.
Visit this place and do not forget.
For by your lives you give meaning to their unspeakable deaths.
?Be consoled,? I say again ?their lives are not in vain.?
They are not lost - although their names did not make the annals on this earth and their possessions are anonymously strewn
Rather they have won a place ? a place in God?s Heaven.
Pray to them and never be despairing
For all your beloved dead - brethren, families and friends are saints in God?s Heaven.
Barbara Marie Mahler |
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Margate SeniorHigh School (FL) Date
April 13, 2007 09:49 AM |
Hi my class is researching the holocaust. In every class I go to we research this topic and it never had an effect on me before I had found out more about this well known topic. We are reading the diary of anne frank and my social studies teacher Mr.Babchick is asking of us to research this site. Ive seen videos read stories on this subject and it not even imaginable to picture or even have any idea of what had happened back then and how those nazi's treated the jews,it is terrible. We are going to meet two Holocause servivers next month. We are also watching this tear dropping movie Spilners List. It's sad to even watch this movie watching people way at the most maybe 50 pounds, walking around with no cloths ,having terrible deseases while no one is caring for them or even being treated for them to get better. This website is a great research site and im glad i am researching this topic. It makes yo feel greatful for the things we have here to day. And now im more apprechiative for what i have.
-Kristi Brack MARGATE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL - FLORIDA |
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Maryvale Senior Highschool Sophomores Date
March 05, 2007 10:40 AM |
we are construting a project called "stand up-Don't stand by: Lessons from the holocaust." This topic is extremely hard because none of us have expierenced what many of the surviors have. This has really touched me because this has been a tramutizeing situation to many. thanks for putting this up, and helping us understand more about the holocaust!
-Brittany Cavar
MARYVALE SENIOR HIGHSCHOOL - NEW YORK |
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not needed Date
March 01, 2007 02:48 PM |
My school is reserching the Holocaust. In every class the teacher has a different assigment that teaches us about the holocaust. I first came to this website to look up information for a project and I was imediatly sucked in. The pictures of all the people that were involed never really had an effect on me until I came here and heard the testimonies of the survivors and saw the historical films. My class is doing a Holocaust remeberance program, we do one every year, and I will try my best and tell my friends to do their best to make this program a program that will make people make sure this type of thing will never happen again! |
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R Date
February 27, 2007 12:18 PM |
Today we had a surviver of the holocaust come and to talk to my school. His name is Josef Perl. His mum and his two older sisters were shot in front of his eyes in the war and his neices and nephew aged 3-6 were told hands when they shot dead. He was around 6 years old when this happened and 15 when it finished. Maybe you can find out about him and try and get more schools to get him to visit and talk to them, he has also got a book called 'Faces In The Smoke', which stands for when he saw the other children being gased and he could see black smoke and the faces of the dead souls of the children crying for help and to be free. |
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Alexandra Date
February 11, 2007 04:39 PM |
I am researching the Holocaust for a school assignment. I thought this would be an easy topic because there was so much information on it, but I've found it is one of the hardest. I cry everytime I read one of my resource books, and when I come to the website and see everyones pain and suffering, it makes me realize that this is one of the hugest atrocities on earth. I visited the Museum in eighth grade, (I am now a Sophomore in High School) and I can remember just crying uncontrollably with my friends as we saw everything, even though this was a remembrance you could almost feel the sorrow leaping out from pictures. I just wanted to thank you for showing students, and everyone else that there are people who were a lot worse off then we think we are, and that these people who didn't get a chance to have their voices heard then, are getting their chances to speak now.. and it would be worthwhile for everyone to listen. |
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M.D. Date
January 26, 2007 01:42 PM |
My uncle, Alexis Dechaux, was a Catholic pastor in Hericourt, France. He was captured by the Gestapo and accused of speaking against the Third Reich during his sermons. He also helped many Jews to escape. He was taken to Haslach in the Black Forest, in Germany, where he was a forced laborer in a camp underground in old mines. The living conditions were putrid, sleeping on wooden planks constructed directly over mud and sludge. The walls constantly leaked water. There were no latrines and the men had to deficate and urinate in the same place where they slept, ate and worked. Many died of pulminary diseases and malnutrition. My uncle was threatened with being shot twice. The head of the camp, Walter Mendel (?), was capatured after the war and sent to Marseille to stand trial. He subsequently wrote to my uncle, begging his foregiveness and saying that he knew he would be found guilty and that he deserved whatever punishment would come. He was found guilty and shot. My uncle was liberated in 1945 and returned to France. He resumed his work at Parish Pastor, but his health deteriorated due to his time in the camp. He dies of Parkinsons and complications in 1968. Before his death, Father Alexis Dechaux was awarded Frances Medal of the Legion of Honnor--one of Frances highest honors. A brave man, full of compassion, love, foregiveness and steadfastedness, he contributed to the survival of many and was courageous in speaking out against the inhumanity of the Third Reich. May God give him peace and joy foreever.
As we say in France,
"Plus Jamais" -- "Never Again" can we allow such monterous acts against humanity. |
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Jason Date
December 11, 2006 09:24 PM |
I was brought up as the grandson of Holocaust survivors, educated from an early age about the atrocites that befell my people and my family. I first came to the museum as a seven year old and can still remember glancing the model of an Auschwitz creamatoria before being pulled away by my mother. Two summers ago I saw those crematoria in person and have been a changed man since.
While pictures and museum displays cannot (personally) affect me as the actual sites did, I thank G-d that we have the USHMM to preserve the memory of those murdered,;so many of whom shared my blood. |
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Mocha Andrews Date
June 08, 2006 12:38 AM |
I just returned from Washington DC with my son's 8th grade class trip. We visited the Holocaust Museum. It was a very moving experience for me. I never understood when I was would study that time period why or how someone could hate a race or person so much. I was crying before I even got totally into the building, the kids didn't understand. However, by the first five minutes I think they all understood why the adults were having such a hard time going into the building. Well, I know that I didn't want to go into it, because I knew some of what I had see in history books would be there--but it would be tenfold. I was raised Quaker and we were raised to love everyone-- no matter what color of their skin, relgious belief, or amount of money that you made. I am so sorry that you and your families had to endure the pain placed upon you because of one stupid man. I am so grateful that those of you that have the courage to pass your story of your passion for freedom, life, and family on to those of us who will only be able to learn from your strength.
As a parent I promise my child will never make anyone suffer for being different. Please know that your stories do touch the hearts of millions young and old. thank you again. |
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