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Holocaust memorial day
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I have family members with tattoos on their arms. 14 still alive.
They're all getting quite old now
They're all getting quite old now
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Lest We Forget?
Let's give props where props are due.
If there's one thing Jews are really good at....
...it's not letting us forget about the Holocaust.
The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt")
Greek? Seems to me they should have picked a German word.
Opa!
Let's give props where props are due.
If there's one thing Jews are really good at....
...it's not letting us forget about the Holocaust.
The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt")
Greek? Seems to me they should have picked a German word.
Opa!
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The memory is woven into the fabric of Boston
Boston is a small city, but it is an aware city
http://www.boston-discovery-guide.com/boston-holocaust-memorial.html
Flanked by touristy Faneuil Hall Marketplace, historic taverns, and looming Government Center buildings and high-rise condos, the location seems strange at first.
But the red stripe of the Freedom Trail can be seen nearby, linking the Memorial to earlier Revolutionary War sites commemorating the fight for liberty and human rights.
The removal of the elevated Central Artery and the surrounding mess of the "Big Dig" in 2006 has opened up this part of the city to a new flow of tourists and locals. As a result, the number of visitors to the Boston Holocaust Memorial has visibly increased, and that is a good thing.
This gripping memorial causes us all to pause and think about the deadly impact of prejudice, hatred, and bigotry, and the importance of speaking out whenever we encounter them.
Boston is a small city, but it is an aware city
http://www.boston-discovery-guide.com/boston-holocaust-memorial.html
Flanked by touristy Faneuil Hall Marketplace, historic taverns, and looming Government Center buildings and high-rise condos, the location seems strange at first.
But the red stripe of the Freedom Trail can be seen nearby, linking the Memorial to earlier Revolutionary War sites commemorating the fight for liberty and human rights.
The removal of the elevated Central Artery and the surrounding mess of the "Big Dig" in 2006 has opened up this part of the city to a new flow of tourists and locals. As a result, the number of visitors to the Boston Holocaust Memorial has visibly increased, and that is a good thing.
This gripping memorial causes us all to pause and think about the deadly impact of prejudice, hatred, and bigotry, and the importance of speaking out whenever we encounter them.
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Anne Frank's stepsister compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler
By Gregory Krieg, CNN
(CNN)—In an essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Anne Frank's stepsister accused Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump of "acting like another Hitler."
Eva Schloss, now 86, was a friend of Frank's in Amsterdam after their families fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Her mother, Fritzi, would marry Otto Frank, Anne's father, after World War II.
"If Donald Trump become(s) the next president of the U.S. it would be a complete disaster," she told Newsweek on Wednesday. "I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism."
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Schloss survived Auschwitz while Frank and her mother died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and Anne Frank's diary became a famous account of life as a Jewish family under Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Schloss, who lives in London, also criticized the U.S. and Western European governments for their response to the Syrian crisis, likening the refugees' experience in 2016 "to what we went through" in Nazi-controlled Europe.
"I remember how upset the world was when the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961," Schloss said. "And now everybody is building walls again to keep people out. It's absurd."
Trump has been compared to the Nazi leader before, both by political opponents in America and critics abroad.
In November, Jeb Bush adviser Max Boot tweeted that the GOP front-runner "is a fascist," while a British newspaper asked its readers in December, "Who Said It: Donald Trump or Adolf Hitler?"
"If you go and look at your history and you read your history in the lead-up to the Second World War, this is the kind of rhetoric that allowed Hitler to move forward," former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican, told CNN on December 9, after Trump called for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration into the U.S. "Because you have people who were scared the economy was bad, they want someone to blame."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/politics/anne-frank-donald-trump-adolf-hitler/index.html
By Gregory Krieg, CNN
(CNN)—In an essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Anne Frank's stepsister accused Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump of "acting like another Hitler."
Eva Schloss, now 86, was a friend of Frank's in Amsterdam after their families fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Her mother, Fritzi, would marry Otto Frank, Anne's father, after World War II.
"If Donald Trump become(s) the next president of the U.S. it would be a complete disaster," she told Newsweek on Wednesday. "I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism."
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Schloss survived Auschwitz while Frank and her mother died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and Anne Frank's diary became a famous account of life as a Jewish family under Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Schloss, who lives in London, also criticized the U.S. and Western European governments for their response to the Syrian crisis, likening the refugees' experience in 2016 "to what we went through" in Nazi-controlled Europe.
"I remember how upset the world was when the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961," Schloss said. "And now everybody is building walls again to keep people out. It's absurd."
Trump has been compared to the Nazi leader before, both by political opponents in America and critics abroad.
In November, Jeb Bush adviser Max Boot tweeted that the GOP front-runner "is a fascist," while a British newspaper asked its readers in December, "Who Said It: Donald Trump or Adolf Hitler?"
"If you go and look at your history and you read your history in the lead-up to the Second World War, this is the kind of rhetoric that allowed Hitler to move forward," former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican, told CNN on December 9, after Trump called for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration into the U.S. "Because you have people who were scared the economy was bad, they want someone to blame."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/politics/anne-frank-donald-trump-adolf-hitler/index.html
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This is crucially important to remember and memorize, lest we repeat history again. However, I think that we'd be best to realize that there have been a lot more than one holocaust, and that the recent ones have occurred within the lifetimes of everyone on this board, and there are currently several happening right now.
It's easy to make villainous something that happened before most of us were born, but harder to come to terms with the reality of how our perception is shaped through multiple generations of lenses. Many people in the US were quite pro-Nazi until 1941, especially among the business elite.
There are parallels that can be drawn to that today, and lessons that we should take with us and not repeat if we can help it.
