We should all remember that despite utter despair there is always hope in humanity. May it never ever happen again. Holocaust Memorial Day Trust The My Hero Project - Maximilian Kolbe
Your post was well timed...yesterday, I thought, was the remembrance of the Allied arrival in Auschwitz, January 27 1945, thereby liberating the some 7000 remaining prisoners. I came to this site looking for some remembrance of it but didn't find it in the time that I had. So I'm glad that something was written. We have here on telelvision what is called 'The History Channel' and last night (the 27th), they showed a very in-depth program about Auschwitz (I didn't see it all), then showed a movie called "The Grey Zone" right afterwards. They spent some time on the decision process of whether or not to bomb Auschwitz and how long it took to actually make a decision. Quite complete, in all, although I only caught a bit of it. The movie looked at the SonderKommandos...I was unaware of these people's hardships and dilemmas. They also looked at the escape of various SS members who tried to escape justice by taking on the uniforms of other service members then hiding out in various other cities and countries. But they showed these programs because an International Agency had proclaimed this a 'Historical Day'. Indeed, we shall not forget...
Sorry it was late. However, as someone who is relatively new I wrongly assumed someone else might post it. I felt it would be remiss of me to just ignore it. I am delighted you feel so strongly about it.
Well, you know it is easy to relegate that particular period to the back of our minds, given what was happening and the scale of it all; I mean who wouldn't care to turn away from the truths about the children, about the experiments and in general all who passed through there...and who can really get an idea of 10,000 people being killed per day anyway, for a period of months and years. Just incomprehensible to most of us here. It was even evoked as an 'embarassing time' because of the length of time it took realise what was going on there, and then to make a decision not to bomb the crematoria or the railway line. Who was it?..President Bush who mentioned it just a few months ago, so it still brings up as yet unresolved feelings of one kind or another. But it shouldn't mean we bury it either. I learned a thing or two about those times, things that I didn't know but am glad I did no matter how unpleasant. For example, the "Righteous"...there's a post here from someone whose family was approached by a person they had harboured from the Germans in Southern France, and people who became 'Les Justes de France' or French Righteous. Even that is kept realtively quiet, hush-hush... Anyway, I was reading 'Liberator's" post every day reminding what went on this day in History. But no mention there either. So agreed thanks SS for keeping this out there for us all to reflect upon.
