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NAME Miss Cat DATEMay 11, 2007 02:40 AM LOCATIONI am a single mother of two wonderful children, my daughter is of Arabic descent. If you can only imagine the issues she has had to deal with based on the actions of a select few people from the country that her biological father was born in. The more I read about the Holocaust the more I realize that there were hundreds of thousands of people who did not exactly participate but watched fearfully and quietly while their own families and, I'm sure, friends murdered men, women and children for no other reason than their own hate. I will never even begin to understand how anyone can kill without any regard what so ever, but what about the people who know it was happening and did nothing? What about the people that could have stopped it? I do believe in God and I do believe that each and every person will be held accountable for their actions, but what about no action? Is playing it safe okay? It makes you think. What if the guy next door is beating his wife? Do you call the police? What if his wife is your daughter? Do you call now? His wife is someone's daughter, if it was yours you would want someone to call. We live in a day and age where it isn't politically correct to get involved, so who's to say that this won't happen again, what if someone somewhere decided to get rid of all the uptight, self-righteous, entitled, religionless, white people? I would want someone to get involved and not be afraid to do something, how about you?  NAME Thasha DATEMay 07, 2007 11:38 PM LOCATIONLong Beach,CA RESPONSEHi, The reason it is important to study the holocaust is that it teaches us alot about what kind if people we have in this world. Even though you might not be Jewish or German it is right for us to know what happens in the other parts of the world. The way I feel about this situation is that it was just stupid, ridiculous,and painful. If you don't like someone becuase of thier race it doesn't mean you have a choice of killing or should I say Genocide. When I was learning about the Holocaust, I was crying. I just kept asking myself, Why,why,and why? I just know that Hilter is in hell right now suffering worse than what the Jewish went through. I really feel sorry for all those people. What makes it even worse, is the children. I recently read the book, Night. It helped me to understand it better and really touched me. Everyone that survived the Holocasut, God Bless and take care. NAME Phoebe W. DATEApril 02, 2007 05:45 PM LOCATIONI don't have any words to describe the events of the Holocaust. I am very iterested in becoming a doctor and the oath"Do no harm" always comes to mind. When researching the Holocaust,I was awstruck at the autrocities...I don't think I'll ever be able to sleep without visions of children being tortured. I think that everyone, not just doctors, should vow to DO NO HARM. I advise everyone to research the genocide in Darfur and make sure that a website like this doesn't have to be made in 30 years for those victims and survivors...hopefully we can help them so there will be survivors... NAME Jamie DATEMarch 28, 2007 02:49 PM LOCATIONHello everyone. My great-aunt is Rena Gelissen and she wrote Rena's Promise. My grandmother is Danka or Dina. Rena was on the first transport to Aushwitz and my grandmother came after. The book tells of their journey and it is a wonderful book. If you'd like to learn more about the holocaust, I encourage you to read this book. Rena passed away just recently but my grandmother is alive but living with Alzheimer's disease. Dina and Rena were the sweetest people who were amazing seamstresses and cooks. This was an obscene event and everyone should learn about it so it NEVER happens again. NAME Jo DATEFebruary 07, 2007 08:03 PM LOCATIONIowa RESPONSEI am a twenty seven year old mother and wife. I am profoundly moved by the stories of these and other survivors of the Holocaust. It is truly the tragedy of humanity that hatred can drive mankind to commit such atrocities. It is much worse when these acts of evil are looked over, tolerated or ignored by the rest of human kind. It is unbelievable to me that mothers and fathers in the German military could look upon the faces of their Jewish counterparts and their children and murder them in the name of foolish ideals. I pray that the souls of those lost have found peace and that the survivors and the good people who helped some to escape are blessed for eternity. It is also my most sincere hope that people recognize that it would be criminal for us all not to put all efforts to stop genocide in our own times. Let the people of Darfur not suffer the losses that the fine people have. Let us tell the world through action that murder is not a resolution to dispute and that genocide will not be tolerated again and again. NAME Ciara DATEFebruary 05, 2007 10:04 PM LOCATIONI am a seventh grader who has always been one of those justice loving people. When i really learned about how bad the Holocaust was, i thought some of the same thoughts that these survivors said they thought. How could the world remain silent with something like this. The Holocaust was just plain wrong; I have no doubt about it. But there are some people in this world who say the Holocaust never happened, or it wasn't as bad as they say, blah blah blah. Well hopefully your website and others like it will prove them wrong, or at least show my generation how bad the holocaust really was so that we don't repeat it. NAME Brittany Y. DATEJanuary 26, 2007 09:00 AM LOCATIONNew Jersey RESPONSEI'm a junior in high school, i've always been interested in the holocaust. Each and every year i continue to learn more about this topic. It's such a horrible occurence that happened. It's known that history always repeats itself, but i think in this case... it won't. i think us as American's can put a stop to another holocaust occuring. I feel horrible for what had happened, especially for all those families who lost there loved ones. I don't think if i was put in that situation i would be able to make it through. you'll all hero's in my eyes, each and every person who the germans treated horrible. i hope to continue to learn more as i get older. God Bless, Brittany NAME Joana DATEJanuary 16, 2007 12:41 AM LOCATIONCalifornia RESPONSEI am a seventh grader and my class and i have been learning about the holocaust in reading class. Until we read the book, Dawn, by Elie Wiesel, did I realize the horror of it all. i had known about the concentration camps and the gas chambers, but i never took it seriously. i was never interested in it, like my bigger sister was. it makes me very sad that millions of jews had to go through this. they were treated so harsh! No human should be treated in that sort of way! i feel so sad for the deaths of all those jews, children, and especially babies. how horrible. the nazis just wanted victory over the jews to show them that they're better than they are. well, they were wrong. the jews won!! But anyways, i wish that the holocaust would've never occurred. that's one of the events in history that i wish would've never happened. NAME Jan Jordan DATEJanuary 08, 2007 01:51 AM LOCATIONDacula, Ga. RESPONSEThe one lesson we need to remember: love one another. We should pass this on to our children to be sure that a Holocaust never occurs again! NAME Justine DATEDecember 12, 2006 09:59 PM LOCATIONI'm a student in the 7th grade, who never much understood the holocaust. I just recently this year, the year of 2006, started getting interested. I always knew a little about it but not a lot, I never realized the full extent of it. I remember when I was even younger than I am now. We went to Washington D.C and were seeing museums. My sister who was about seven or six years older than me kept saying she wanted to go see the holocaust musem, and I remember thinking "What is the Holocaust museum?" I didn’t know I was confused. And I asked my parents if I could go. And they said I was too young. Now that I am older and I have learned more I have watched these interviews of the survivors and I have read books, on people surviving the Holocaust, I wonder if my parents were right about me being to young then, because sometimes I still feel to young now to fully understand this all. It was such a horrible thing and I don’t know how these survivors did it, but I respect them fully, and am so glad they survived and are able to share there past memories. Thank you, Justine |
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