Sixty-one years ago today

darklinensuit · #1 04-19-2004, 11:21 AM

Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) falls on April 19, for on this date in 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began.

Please take a moment to remember those who did not live to tell their stories and the lessons the world must never forget.

- Jake

jadegypsy · #2 04-19-2004, 01:41 PM

Thank you for posting this, I never realized they had this day. May we also take a moment to remember those who did live to tell their stories and remind us everyday how blessed we are and to never forget and never let something of this magnitude occur again.

tommer · #3 04-19-2004, 06:25 PM

i'm afraid Rwanda's case showed us that no lesson has been learned.

GardenStateGirlie · #4 04-19-2004, 08:57 PM

I wasn't aware there was a day either. Thanks for posting this.

darklinensuit · #5 04-21-2004, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by tommer

i'm afraid Rwanda's case showed us that no lesson has been learned.

True. In fact, the survivor I heard speak on Tuesday stressed this theme.

- Jake

darklinensuit · #6 04-20-2004, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by jadegypsy

Thank you for posting this, I never realized they had this day. May we also take a moment to remember those who did live to tell their stories and remind us everyday how blessed we are and to never forget and never let something of this magnitude occur again.

I love this quote from Gerda Weissman Klein's All But My Life:
"Happy in my new life, I have penned the last sentence of the past. I have written my story, with tears and with love, in the hope that my children, safely asleep in their cribs, should not awake from a nightmare and find it to be reality."

- Jake

GardenStateGirlie · #7 04-20-2004, 01:14 AM

Jake, have you ever read Night by Elie Wiesel?

darklinensuit · #8 04-20-2004, 01:46 AM

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Jake, have you ever read Night by Elie Wiesel?

Yeah, many years ago.
The seventh grade teacher in my department requires students to read it. I'm not letting it happen next year. Seventh grade is too young. Watching the film Escape From Sobibor is also nixxed as far as I'm concerned. Save these for ninth grade. Eighth graders are visiting the National Holocaust Museum this week.

I heard Wiesel speak the night I moved to Texas. I heard Gerda speak later that year, and she is the best I've heard. Her bio is my favorite.

- Jake

GardenStateGirlie · #9 04-20-2004, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Yeah, many years ago.
The seventh grade teacher in my department requires students to read it. I'm not letting it happen next year. Seventh grade is too young. Watching the film Escape From Sobibor is also nixxed as far as I'm concerned. Save these for ninth grade. Eighth graders are visiting the National Holocaust Museum this week.

I heard Wiesel speak the night I moved to Texas. I heard Gerda speak later that year, and she is the best I've heard. Her bio is my favorite.

- Jake

We didn't watch Escape From Sobibor until 10th grade and that was the same year in which Wiesel's book was on my summer reading list. Seventh grade isn't really age appropriate for the content of the book, I agree.

As many times as i've been to DC, i've yet to go to the Holocaust Museum. The last time I was down there, they opened up a September 11th section in the Smithsonian and I had a difficult time with that so I don't know how i'd fair at the Holocaust Museum although I definately should make it a point to go there one of these days.

Rob67 · #10 04-19-2004, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) falls on April 19, for on this date in 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began.

Please take a moment to remember those who did not live to tell their stories and the lessons the world must never forget.

- Jake

I just bought Schindler's List on DVD, so I think I will watch that.

Rob

darklinensuit · #11 04-20-2004, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Rob67

I just bought Schindler's List on DVD, so I think I will watch that.

Rob

I usually read a Holocaust memoir each year at this time and go to hear a speaker. I'll hear one speaker on Tuesday. On Sunday night I heard a woman who escaped Germany with her family. For those of you who don't know, eventually all ports except one closed their doors to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. Some ships were actually sent back to Germany for cetain death. The one port that permitted Jews? Believe it or not, Shanghai. This woman described her experience in detail, including what it was like when the Japanese invaded and occupied.

- Jake