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Amira Sobeih
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liberation of the Auschwitz death cam
January 25, 2005 - 07:37 AM
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Schroeder deplores Auschwitz evil
The German chancellor recalls the Nazi horrors of Auschwitz and urges vigilance against anti-Semitism.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has called for vigilance to counter anti-Semitism as the world remembers the Nazi crimes committed at Auschwitz.
"The overwhelming majority of Germans living today do not bear guilt for the Holocaust. But they do bear a special responsibility," he said.
Germans have a duty "to be vigilant, not to look away," he told a gathering in Berlin, among them camp survivors.
Thursday is the 60th anniversary of the Auschwitz death camp liberation.
Six million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. Millions of others - mostly Poles, Roma (Gypsies), Soviet prisoners and homosexuals - were used as slave labour in appalling conditions and many of them died.
The UN General Assembly held a session on Monday to mark the liberation anniversary.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4204465.stm
UK Muslims to boycott Holocaust day
Tuesday 25 January 2005, 20:47 Makka Time, 17:47 GMT
British Muslim leaders are unwilling to attend this week's commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, arguing the day should honour victims of genocide everywhere.
Britain's main Islamic group said it should be called Genocide Memorial Day and commemorate all mass killings, including in Bosnia, Rwanda
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/80294A1D-4B69-41A0-8975-A0FCE1000672.htm
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Re: liberation of the Auschwitz death cam
January 27, 2005 - 01:19 AM
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I actually know a good number of families who lost memebers in Auschwitz.
It was litterally a factory to produce death.It marks a low point in human history - and its liberation marks the triumph over tyranny.
As for not marking the 60th aniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz as exactly that - the 60th aniversay of the liberation of Auschwitz - that seems rather absurd.
Why would we call it Genocide day? Mark the killings in Bosnia on a day more significant to that conflict.
The British Islamic party is basically being Anti-semetic cause they don't like the jews - basically they don't like Israel so they think we whould whitewash over Auschwitz and make it a more generic memorial.
WE have a saying, perhaps they haven't heard - Never Forget, Never Again.
Never forget the faces, and the eyes, evil has worn away the innosance.
These are people who forget entirely what it was to smile. They forgot Joy, rather they were forced to their doom.
Never Again.
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Re: liberation of the Auschwitz death cam
January 27, 2005 - 01:42 AM
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I am glad to hear that Germany youth still understand the lessons of WW2 - I imagine it is a rather awkward and difficult part of your history to come to terms with.
If I am not mistaken the Nazis essentially made the blood cult they practiced into a state religion - alot of their laws were based on this religion and its precepts of the "purity of blood" - they were actually telling people that the Jews wanted to make the German blood impure through sexual conquest.
There are still places in the world where people are made to live in something echoing the concentraition camps - but nothing on the scale, or with the coldhearted precision and efficiency that the Nazis went about making people suffer and die.
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Re: liberation of the Auschwitz death cam
January 27, 2005 - 10:21 AM
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i havent been to the Aushwitz Concentration Camp, but to one nearby, here in Germany, to Buchenwald, and i it was so miserbale that i cannot imagine how much worse Auschwitz could have been, and i know that it was much much worse.
The systematic in the killings. The so called "gas showers..." the slides on which the bodies were layed and transported to the cellar where the were burnt....a cold shiver runs down my spine when i think of it. The photgraphs of the people, where you can recognise each bone, the findings of the prisoners. The graves the russians layed for the germans after they had set the prisoners free...the gate with "Jedem das Seine" (to each his own) engraved on it..It must have been horrible, and i didnt get out of depression for weeks...But i know from my grand parents, that most of the people didnt even know what was going on...only that suddenly everything was stricter, and people kept on dissapearing. The youth learned "nazi maths", an example from a nazi maths book :
Question 95: The building of a mentalhome costs 6 million RM. How many colonies for each 15000 RM could you have built for it?
And alot more misterious stuff...
Horrible Horrible Horible
I thank the Countries who saved the innocnt people in the Concentration Camps, but also Germany from a bigger dissaster. We cannot forget what happened and we must learn from our mistakes....
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Re: liberation of the Auschwitz death cam
January 27, 2005 - 11:22 AM
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I recently saw Holocaust Survivor David Faber speak. He is a Polish Jew who lost almost all of his family either to outright murder my the Nazis in their homes or in concentration camps.
http://www.ptloma.edu/HistPolSci/faculty/D_Reynolds/DFaber/david_faber_info.htm
Take note of how he speaks to groups free of charge. He does this out of an earnest desire to help people "never forget."
He wrote this book, " Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivors Memoir":
http://www.worldhistoryhub.com/Because_of_Romek_A_Holocaust_Survivors_Memoir_0972807705.html
He really covers most of what is in the book in his speech. But if you haven't heard him or any other survivors speak, then the book will be a real eye-opener. I recall him saying that the book basically only costs enough to cover the cost of publishing and is not for profit.
I agree that all holocausts/genocides need to be well documented and not forgotten. Ever. A bad memory for history usually causes history to repeat itself.
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Re: liberation of the Auschwitz death cam
January 28, 2005 - 12:11 PM
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Remember...Never forget...
It seens so important for us, the next generation to remember horrible histories like those, in order to prevent history from repeating itself. It's beyond our imagination how painful it must be for the survivors to recall their horrid memories to tell us about their experience.
I'm forever thankful of what they did, and forver regret their losses.
I think our society focused more about remembering the pass than preventing history from repeating itself. Death Camp it's one of the most extrem, but it's also just a part of the whole "pyramid" of unjustice which includes: death, violence, war, racism, and much more. Therefore, we shouldn't concentrating only on preventing holocause from happening again; but rather stopping all kind of unfairness and unjustice in the world.
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