Holocaust Remembrance Day
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What a sad time and events.
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One of my dad's friends was with the troops that liberated Bergen-Belsen. He wouldn't talk about it other than to reply when questioned whether it was as bad as reported with an emphatic 'YES!'.
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One of my most memorable holocaust stories which I believe was in Justice in Jerusalem was of a farmer who took in several Jewish families and hid and cared for them on his farm. He went so far as to help them keep the holidays
even making unleavened bread for them for Passover.After the war, as in Schindler's List, the families offered what little they had of money and jewelry. He refused it because he explained they would need everything they had to start their new lives.
Sadly, when some fellow countrymen learned of his charity to the Jewish families, his farm was burned. The Jewish families arranged for him to come to Israel as one of the righteous.
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The man who revealed the atrocities and horrors that were Auschwitz to the world:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250113-the-man-who-volunteered-for-auschwitz
@Renauda Interesting story. I am surprised he was able to survive so long in the camp.
As a side note: if you are in Washington DC, highly recommend you visit the Holocaust museum there. Very sad and kind of a downer, but also well worth visiting.
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@Renauda Interesting story. I am surprised he was able to survive so long in the camp.
As a side note: if you are in Washington DC, highly recommend you visit the Holocaust museum there. Very sad and kind of a downer, but also well worth visiting.
I my past travels I’ve actually visited Auschwitz and the Babi Yar massacre ravine in central Kyiv. Both experiences left indelible marks and haunting memories.
There is nothing banal about pure evil when you have visited either memorial.
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I had a rather unique visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau.
I was dating a polish girl at the time, and we drove in from Krakow. Almost everyone arrives in a tourist bus. We started in Auschwitz when there were still tourists around. But by the time we got to Birkenau the last bus had left. So the last half hour it was open we were walking through Birkenau (which people confuse with Auschwitz) where the train stops at the tower and the selection was held. It was very cold, and we were totally alone in the camp. It felt timeless, it could have been June of 1945.
