OT - the all new - 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz thread

[Flasch186]

Started Kindly by NoMyths with:

"Please take a moment from your day to reflect on the millions of people who suffered unendurable torment because of anger and hatred, and rededicate your life to making sure that you never allow, contribute to, or approve of any part of similar tragedies."




Followed with

"May this never occur again anywhere to anyone"




Lets just accept the above at fac e value and keep it about the holocaust. Just take a moment.

thanks

[flere-imsaho]

Also, as weinstein7 pointed out in the other thread, others besides Jews died in the Holocaust. On my way home tonight NPR pointed out that 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz alone, 1 million of whom were Jews. Let's spare a thought for all, and all who perished in other tragedies.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

Let's spare a thought for all, and all who perished in other tragedies.

I'll drink to that.

[weinstein7]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

Also, as weinstein7 pointed out in the other thread, others besides Jews died in the Holocaust. On my way home tonight NPR pointed out that 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz alone, 1 million of whom were Jews. Let's spare a thought for all, and all who perished in other tragedies.

In fact, Auschwitz is the single largest resting place (if you can call it that) of Poles.

But really, it's humanity as a whole that suffers as the result of genocide, not just Jews or Armenians or Bosnians. Which is why the second part of Flasch's post is so important. If we allow genocide to continue, then those people truly died for nothing. But if we take their memories and use them as incentive to prevent genocide, then at least their deaths can acquire some meaning.

[tategter]

Unfortunately genocide and other forms of mass extermination of the weaker will be around for the foreseeable future. There are just too many groups on this earth that are both willing and capable of killing on a large scale for all kinds of reasons.

On a side note I have visited the holocost museum in DC and it is a very sobering experience. Well done because it doesn't shove the notion of the plight of the jews down your throat, it just rolls-out the facts and lets you decide what went wrong.