Holocaust memorial day

Today is the memorial day for the holocaust in Israel.
I am sure that you are aware of the holocaust but if you are not here is a little brief about it. (i am telling from what i know and now from wiki or some thing, i want to tell you about it in my own word's)
The holocaust was why this war started. The nazis hated jewish people and everything about jewish people, the hate came from a long time ago, for hundredths of years people hated jewish people true out the world


To make a long story short, the hate reached it maximum stage when the nazisem came. Jewish people where more successful in work and money and had more money then every one els, the hate went even bigger because Jewish where not originally burn in the country and they where more successful then the people that where originally burn in the country. Hitler became a leader because among of the things that he promised he promised revenge on the jewish people. When he became a leader the since of hate to Jews started step by step slowly...
At first they where no allowed to go to places like the zoo,public parks,coffee shop. Then they where not allowed to by different kinds of food, then they where not allowed to walk on the sidewalk, only by the sidewalk, after some time special places where only Jews where needed to live where build and they where blocked with walls.

An example of a this places.


After some time when Jews started to starve, get sick and die... Riots started on them, bibles where burn and there stuff where tooken from them, the soldiers took the Jews on trains to a place called (free translation here) elimination camps or work camps.

gathering Jewish

in elimination camps the nazis just took the jews and killed them in fire,gaz shower(showers with gaz instead of water, around 100 people died in one shower) and any thing that came in mind for the nazis.

Elimination camp


in work camps the Jews worked and made weapons for the nazis and when they had no power they where killed or they just died from over work or starvation. Some people tried to run, some people hided in the worst places where no way the german's couldn't fined them, but they still found most of them.
Hitler started the war because he wanted to rich all the jews and kill them all.
Jewish where threated worst then to bugs and as well they killed them like that.

People got shot in holes.


starved Jews.

To short things up...
6,000,000 million Jews were killed at the total about 1,500,000 million kids were killed.


Hope i did well explaining and if you want to add some thing of you're own you are most welcome. (I wanted to post more pictures but i fined the two cruel so i didn't)

-Gaky

 

Thanks Gaky for the summery of the holocast.


I actually like to share a poem here that many in the forum might have never heard before.. it was written in Terezin (Aka, Theresienstadt ghetto). The prisioner there was Pavel Friedman, he wrote the poem "the butterfly" on June 6 1942. It speaks metiforically of what life was to be free. He was once a butterfly free to enjoy the simple things in life, to be free to fly away.

THE BUTTERFLY


The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing
against a white stone…


Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly ‘way up high.
It went away I'm sure because it wished to
kiss the world goodbye.


For seven weeks I've lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto
But I have found my people here.
The dandelions call to me

And the white chestnut candles in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don't live in here,
In the ghetto.
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Pavel Friedmann 4.6.1942
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Pavel Friedman was born in Prague on Jan. 07, 1921. He was deported to Terezin on April 29 1942. He was transfered to Auschwitz, where he died on Sept 29 1944.

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In memory of those killed ​

 

I have heard about that song. But a long time ago, about 10 years ago. Thank you for the song
The place where they where gathered before being killed was that ghetto i was talking about at the start, i just forgot how was it's name.

 

I fined it sad that no one replayed in that post except of sunny.

 

Any specific reason why the memorial day in Israel is on May 1st? I remember reading that countries like France remember the Holocaust on the anniversary of a significant event.

 

I really believe that most people need to have a good look at the large books that exist depicting the conditions the Allies discovered in the concentration camps that the Nazis used to work and kill the Jewish people and others they did not care for. That would mean that everyone would be able to see for themselves what our fellow men are capable of, and the ignorance of the notions that are often promoted about, that "the Holocaust didn't really happen" or "holocaust was faked" would be silenced if they could face the facts. In the above you mentioned that this was the initial cause of the war. I would add that as time went by there were many reasons that the Allies had their own interests that also led them into this war. The reason I bring this up is that a lot of the war was fought before the Allies became fully aware of what was going on in the concentration camps. For example my parents were aware of atrocities by both Japan and Germany but the fullness of this holocaust was not completely apparent until some of the troops came home and became more educated at what had been found in the camps. I would also add that people that came home after the war did not have complete closure when they began to realize that Nazis were succeeding in avoiding justice and when they realized this there was some agony caused by this knowledge for them. So I would say for the victims and those that were aware the end of WWII only marked a start for a struggle of survival and justice. I do think the soldiers that suffered the Bataan Death march were the victims of this kind of torture as well, but most other soldiers did not have as wide exposure to the inhumanity of the enemies at least in the massive numbers that people had been made to suffer. I am someone who does mourn the loss of the souls in what capacity that I am able. I will state outright that we do not know how much greater our science, and business might be today if this segment of the population had been allowed to live and contribute....we do not know what diseases may have been prevented by their studies. I will go even further and state that it would have been a much harder task to defeat Germany if it had not turned predator against this segment of its own population that could have contributed to the war effort with their business or production capabilities. If you study German economy early in the Nazi days Hitler once kept people from bothering the Jews to protect the economy but gave that up when his hatred could stand it no longer. I encourage those of any interest in history, and the mistakes that man can make, to study carefully this behavior of man that has come to be referred to as the "Holocaust".

 

i found not so long time ago that the nazis wanted to build a huge musiam of the jewish extiction, that they exterminated all the jewish they wanted to show that and they wanted to build a huge musiam about jews that is why they saved all there properties like gold, medals and such....