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Name:Mike OReilly2017-02-13 09:20 PM
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Location:Cape Cod, MAMessage: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. |
Name:Lawrence Gowan2015-11-10 12:47 PM
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Location:Toronto, CanadaMessage: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. |
Name:Pallas2015-09-23 10:39 PM
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Location:Rineyville, KYMessage: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. |
Name:Genesis Diaz2015-09-03 12:39 AM
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Location:Washington, D.C.Message: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. |
Name:Dawn Reiter2013-04-16 02:18 PM
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Location:Leesport, PAMessage: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. |
Name:Michelle2013-04-07 06:45 PM
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Location:ottawa, canadaMessage: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. |
Name:Jon Henderson2013-03-12 12:44 PM
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Location:GeorgiaMessage: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. |
Name:Trinity Massey2013-02-25 12:24 PM
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Location:ArknasasMessage:This is so sad! I hate that she had to go through this at a young age! |
Name:Hendrik Merison2013-02-19 03:24 PM
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Location:Belfast, NY, USAMessage: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. |
Name:Victoria R Walden2013-01-02 11:03 PM
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Location:Kempner, TXMessage: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! |
Name:Eileen Fournier2012-12-27 01:11 PM
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Location:VirginiaMessage:I've watched the movies of the Holocaust like: "The Boy in the Blue Pajamas", "Freedom Writers", and "Schindler's List". During my visit in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, there were many other things I had missed from learning about the Holocaust. They had it hard, and its very heartbreaking to know and see what they have gone through. How terrible it would be if that cause repeats itself.. I don't need any presents for Christmas, I don't buy things I don't need; I'm just thankful I have a home and my family to keep living. |
Name:Nicholas2012-11-23 01:16 AM
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Location:MiamiMessage:Hate and discrimination no matter how subtle. It's still happening. |
Name:Shelby2012-10-22 01:07 PM
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Location:Minnesota, USAMessage:I'm doing a project for my senior English class, where we got a person from the Holocaust, this is mine...We are also reading Night by Ellie Wiesel...Such a sad topic to discuss, I'd love to visit the museum eventually. |
Name:leonidas m. aballe2012-10-19 11:00 PM
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Location:philippinesMessage:My father was a former USAFFE, stationed in Visayas, Cebu. Those who were assigned in Luzon were victims of Japanese initiated death march. Few of these prison camps were liberated by the returning Allied forces and many perished on the death march. But what we suffer was just too little as compared to Europe Nazi prison camps. |
Name:Rose Chaney2012-09-20 09:50 AM
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Location:Ardmore, Okla USAMessage:I read Stolen Years to all of my sixth grade classes. They learned more through Sara's book than through our history books. That was in about 1985 or 86. Sara wrote us back and I still have the letters. Some of my students later visited the Holocaust Museam and wrote letters to me describing their feelings about the Holocaust. I wrote to her again a few years ago and learned that she had passed away. |
Name:Amani Brown2012-09-05 10:09 AM
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Location:Clarksville, TennesseeMessage:This was a very dark and heavy thing to talk about. I'm doing a research project on The Holocaust and this really breaks my heart to do this. |
Name:Donna2012-08-19 09:46 PM
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Message:I was very lucky to have been born here in the United States in March of 1943. I think if I had been born in Europe, I would have perished.I have one very close friend who is German by birth and a Zen teacher who is German. Both are wonderful people. I know other Germans who are wonderful. Yet I have heard that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Germany, Europe, the U.S.A. and other places. As a Jewish person this disturbs me very much. I know I try to do whatever I can to show love and compassion toward all of my fellow humans and towards the environment in general. People must speak out against all the negative hatred and behvior in the world to try and stop it. Can't our species ever learn that hate and violence towards life is not the way? |
Name:Helen2012-05-09 12:23 PM
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Location:ArizonaMessage:I read the Diary of Anne Frank a month ago and it was such an inspiring story. I loved hearing how she described everybody and how her family survived. I wish there was another book about Anne Frank. She is a great person to look up to. |
Name:Nancy Ann Wolicki2012-04-26 04:16 AM
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Location:Wyoming, PAMessage:My father was in the military in WW2. He was a captain and also a camp liberator. He and his company were assigned to photograph the camps. He brought home many photos of atrocities of war. From Holland to Poland. I am half Jewish. My family lost relatives in the Holocaust, a Rabbi, several cousins and aunts and uncles. Only few survived. My father's photos, army uniform and all of his medals are being donated to Shoah Foundation and US Holocaust Museum. I have many many books on WW2 history and Holocaust. One heartwrenching story that is true is bio by Irene Opdyke "In My Hands- My Story of a Rescuer". This woman lived to tell about the horrors. She recently passed away. We need to hear more from survivors before the voices are forever silenced. |
Name:Sylvia de la Rua2012-04-21 08:25 AM
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Location:Miami, FLMessage:I have come to know a survivor intimately. I feel priviledged to have had this person in my life- a survivor who has used his terrible experience to help others survive. No murderous dictator can snuff out the basic goodness of people like the one I've been blessed to know. |
Name:Sarah2012-04-19 09:57 PM
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Location:MontrealMessage:I just read the most amazing memoir about Auschwitz. It's "Gray" by Hanna Nowak. I would really recommend it to anyone who wanted to learn more about the Jewish Holocaust experience. |
Name:Steve Fabian2012-03-22 03:55 PM
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Location:NJMessage:Selma Wijnberg is the true model of Judaism that we should all inspire to be and to have her strength. After the most horrific ordeal at Sobibor, she still had to endure terrible treatment as well as personal tragedies and hardships.I want her to know that I remember her and the victims everyday. Time will not minimize who she is or what she had to endure. |
Name:Cathy Bourne2012-02-18 04:41 PM
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Location:Chandler AZMessage:My daughter visited the Ann Frank exhibit on loan in our city with her junior high class. Each child in the class was "paired" with a holocaust victim by receiving a lavalier. Ironically, the women who my daughter was randomly given shared her last name, Weidner, and two days separated their birthday's. We celebrated Gabriella Weidner that night as a family and what she sacrificed. It was nice to find her on your site and learn more about her. |
Name:rose2012-02-13 10:32 AM
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Location:phoenix, azMessage:I never stop finding myself amazed that these precious people suffered such unspeakable acts of torture and humiliation; yet those who miraculously survived, did so with such grace!That they can even smile and have positive outlooks on life is miraculous! This Chosen People must bring great pleasure to our Lord as they walk forward in life with such DIGNITY! |
Name:James Arbuckle2012-01-28 08:18 PM
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Location:Los AngelesMessage:My heart will never be whole again. My soul has been wrenched into peices that can never be rejoined for the love I feel for each and every single human who suffered the slightest injury in the Shoah. I would gladly give my life to alleviate the suffering of even one little hungary baby in the Warsaw ghetto or a favorite Uncle Shmiel in the ditch called Babi Yar.I love them all, each and every mother, father, son, daughter, uncle, cousin, aunt, nephew, grandmother, grandfather, grandchild, and friend. Every man, woman, and child who for a single moment was forced to contemplate a world without themselves. I live in the Fairfax District and each day thank God for my Jewish neighbors. I love them so much it's hurts and every day I wish I could have taken the place of just one who died to take the pain onto myself. When I see and read and hear AntiSemetic action even today my blood boils to steam. Don't they know that as God's Chosen People we are blessed today with Doctors, Lawyers, Craftsman, Bankers who have ALL contributed to the world we have inherited? Each day we take medicine or go to Court or cash a check we owe it to a wonderful Jewish man or women? God Bless you all and thank you...for it is through you that God has chosen to bless the human race and I for one will NEVER FORGET. |
