Oświęcim-Auschwitz

[irvin66]

Today 70 years ago was one of mankind's worst extermination camps liberated by Russian troops. This is a day we must never forget, so history does not repeat itself.

[trish]

Thank you for the thoughtful and much needed reminder.

[Dahlia Babe Ailhad]

Hi everyone,

I, truly, feel sadness for the many Jewish families who had suffered at the hands of those murderers.



And, HERE it comes, i do not want to rain on a anyone's memorial day, BUT, why is it that Amerindians who were slaughtered in the hundreds of millions, as well as, African slaves slaughtered in the hundreds of millions, have to take a backseat to 6 million or so Jewish victims of slaughter?
Why? Why is that?
Were they/are they worth less than Jewish victims?
Just something to consider.



In closing:
I wish to offer my sincerest condolences to anyone Jewish person, here, who has lost family members from those times of persecution.

Babe

[Laphroaig]

I've been to both Austwitz and Birkenau and seen the mounds of spectacles, hair, suitcases and possibly most poignant of all the pile of prosthetic limbs taken from the camp inmates. I'm not normally a particularly emotional person but standing in the gas chamber at Austwitz practically had me in tears. There were many other people who were visably overcome by the whole experience. The atrocities committed in the concentration camps in Germany, not just on Jews, but also on disabled, gypsies, gays and anyone else who didn't conform to the "Aryan ideal" can never be forgotten.