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Holocaust Remembrance Day begins tonight - SteveG - 04-15-2015 Holocaust Remembrance Day begins the night of Wednesday April 15 this year, when people around the world will commemorate the millions of victims of the Nazis’ World War II extermination campaign that killed two out of three European Jews. Six million Jews were slaughtered during the Holocaust, along with millions of Roma, Slavs, political dissidents, people with disabilities and gays. Known in Israel as Yom HaShoah, the remembrance was established by the Israeli parliament in 1951 to coincide with the liberation of concentration camps in Western Europe and the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest Jewish-led revolt against the Nazis during the war. The solemn occasion is typically marked with ceremonies that emphasize the importance of remembering the atrocity and the power of passing on the memories of survivors and their descendants to future generations. As Israeli historian Ben-Zion Dinur once noted, “If we believe that we are to pave the way to the future, then we must first of all not forget.” Re: Holocaust Remembrance Day begins tonight - vision63 - 04-15-2015 Never forget is right. Re: Holocaust Remembrance Day begins tonight - bfd - 04-16-2015 “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” -- Elie Wiesel Re: Holocaust Remembrance Day begins tonight - cbelt3 - 04-16-2015 A good friend of my son's is with the B'nai Brith youth organization in Poland right now for this. She's doing facetime sessions with classes in the school talking about the Holocaust from various sites. I'm pleased to see that history is being brought to life, especially as that whole generation is rapidly dying out. When no first hand testimony exists, the eyes and words of history will remain. Re: Holocaust Remembrance Day begins tonight - mrlynn - 04-16-2015 Bergen-Belsen through the Eyes of Its Liberator Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416948/bergen-belsen-through-eyes-its-liberator-bernice-lerner Never forget. /Mr Lynn Re: Holocaust Remembrance Day begins tonight - mrbigstuff - 04-16-2015 PBS showed the silent film about the aftermath of the Shoah the other night. I believe it is the same film I saw as a young teenager that changed my worldview. Re: Holocaust Remembrance Day begins tonight - hal - 04-16-2015 mrlynn wrote: damn... even months of fighting a war couldn't possibly prepare you for THAT kind of a scene. It must have been like living in a nightmare... Re: Holocaust Remembrance Day begins tonight - N-OS X-tasy! - 04-17-2015 Just finishing up reading Schindler's List now. I try to read Holocaust-related literature on a somewhat regular basis, so as to never forget. |