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Mike OReilly
February 13, 2017 09:20 PM

Upon entering the Holocaust Museum I was handed a card of remembrance for Gertrud Teppich. After walking through the Museum I keep Gertrud close to my heart. Thank you for letting me honor her.
Lawrence Gowan
November 10, 2015 12:47 PM

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is one of the greatest I've ever experienced.
The lessons it reveals reach far beyond the horrific historical narrative. It provokes you to confront the darkest tendencies of human nature and hopefully imparts the wisdom to identify and defeat them in future. Thank you.
Pallas
September 23, 2015 10:39 PM

We visited the Holocaust Museum in August, and Ilse's card is the one I drew. It was so moving for me to be connected to a woman who went through that horror from the start of our tour. I've been drawn to read accounts of the Holocaust over the years, so of course seeing the museum was a must when we visited DC. I know Ilse has been gone a long time, but I say a little prayer for her whenever I think about her.
Genesis Diaz
September 03, 2015 12:39 AM

Thank you so much for sharing this museum with everyone. It is so chilling to see that Pola was only a year younger than me. She wanted to escape and failed. I can't imagine what she was going through to see that her mother had died and then being shot to death. I have shared her story and about this experience. The exhibits really were eye opening and the silence showed the respect it deserved. I hope Pola is finally at peace and reunited with her family in the eternal life. History can never be erased, it has to be preserved so that we can retell the past and not commit the same mistakes that were done in the past.
Dawn Reiter
April 16, 2013 02:18 PM

I have been teaching a unit on the Holocaust, including Anne Frank, for 14 years. Recently I have read reports that Anne was denied asylum to the United States. My previous knowledge of her life did not include that detail. Is it factual? If so, what are the circumstances. Thanks for the guidance.
Michelle
April 07, 2013 06:45 PM

I live in a nursing home. I'm in my forties I ran into my first holocaust denier today. He didn't think that the Holocaust was as bad as was claimed. He also thinks that Hitler managed to sneak out of Germany after the war and died of old age. He wanted to know why young people like me are buying into the "*&^" and keeping it alive. And the scary part is that this man was old enough to live through that "#$%&" as he called it. So why do I buy into it?

I'll tell you why. I have something in common with the Jewiah people. If I had been born in Hitler's Germany with my body the way I was born with it or if Hitler had won the war, I would have wound up on Hitler's hit list for my cerebral palsy. I would have been sent to a killing center and finished off. I have been very aware of that and that at least one another ancient society would have done the same regardless of how bright I am or how nice. I have been very painfully aware of this since the age of 15 and I make it my business to learn and remember what my esteemed elder today called "#$%$" because soon the eyewitnesses will all be dead and it will become that much easier to deny. Jews have every reason to fear when anti-sematism goes on the rise. Do I believe that the Holocaust happened? Yes. Why else would the State of Israel insist that every citizen, man or woman, spend three years in the army? Because other nations are lining up to wipe them off the map. Jews came very close to extinction in Europe and while I am not Jewish, I am well aware that every Jew must feel more than a little fear when someone talks of wiping out Israel. People are also embracing euthanasia again in certain parts of the world and not just for the terminally ill and believe me, it is just as frightening. I make it my business to know the history of Nazi Germany because soon my generation may be called upon to stop it from repeating itself. Regardless of age, if you read the history of the Nazi regime, see yourself on that hit list and see history repeating itself, well, you understand fear very, very well. I will do what I can to ensure websites like this stay open, that the truth remains told and to defend the Jewish people, whether or not they return the favour should the disabled come under attack. And even if you aren't on Hitler's hit list, all it takes is for a madman to gain political power and put you on his own. It happened in Germany, those who do not remember history, or who deny it, are doomed to repeat it.

The worst form of hatred is for someone to want you dead. It's frightening and it hurts.

And understand I would do more, much more to help save that reading that history tears my heart out and makes me as sick as though I lost someone in the Holocaust myself.
Jon Henderson
March 12, 2013 12:44 PM

My father Sgt. Paul Henderson was with the 72nd Signal Company attached to the 36th Infantry Division (3rd Army) and was at Dachau shortly after it was liberated. He was deeply affected by the horrors there. I am proud to be the son of a American Liberator.
Trinity Massey
February 25, 2013 12:24 PM

This is so sad! I hate that she had to go through this at a young age!
Hendrik Merison
February 19, 2013 03:24 PM

My parents hid a total of six Jewsof which five were females. Although I am no longer able to establish an exact time line, it was I believe in mid 1943 that a German Razzia picked up our Jewish guests and incarcerated my Dad. As I was eleven years old only highlights are indelibly engraved in my mind, such as when one of the Nazi hooligans placed his pistol on my right temple demanding where I was going. I will never forget the feeling of that cold steel on my temple.
My Dad survived the concentration camp, but none of the Jews we had for more than a year amidst us survived; they all died in the gas chambers.
Amongst the hardships that I recall was that the mother of the ladies was sick. Later I was told that she had what is now known as Cancer. That too brought difficulties as her demise was anticipated and the problem of disposing of a corpse would bring more troubles for my parents.
Dad was interrogated at the infamous headquarters on the Utrechtseweg in Arnhem.
Our home was in the city of Arnhem, known from the book and movie A Bridge Too Far.
Victoria R Walden
January 02, 2013 11:03 PM

The Rolling W, 89th is the unit that my grandpa was in during WWII. He passed away at the age of 93 on December 26th. The Holocaust Memorial had honored him as a Liberator of the Ordruf Prison. He was also honored this summer at his church for being the last WWII living veteran in the church. Goodbye Pops we will miss you!

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