BS: Holocaust memorial day - January 27

Subject: BS: Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Jan 23 - 06:04 PM

There's been lots of coverage on the BBC, much of it quite late at night, unfortunately. Survivors have been recounting their experiences, and it's grand that there are still people approaching the age of a hundred who can still give us clear-eyed testimony of the horrors they experienced. That won't go on for many more years, and a recurring theme is that there's the worry that the Holocaust will become a footnote in history. Well I don't think that will happen, mainly because we have so much footage of the camps in 1945 and so much recorded testimony. I won't be around to see whether that prediction will come true, but I do think that the Holocaust should be a prominent part of every child's school experience, treating it as an historical afterthought not allowed.

What a bugger it is to see what's happened in Israel in the last couple of days. I have no wish to start an anti-Israel regime spat, but I know what I think...

Subject: RE: BS: Holocaust memorial day
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 23 - 06:48 PM

Yesterday I watched a fictional trial of a living Hitler. Just like Eichmann they put him in a glass cage.It was the Al Pacino Nazi Hunters series on Netflix. I recall when I was nearly five I watched on TV the Eisenhower broadcast of The holocaust films made by American troops. I remember listening to my Dad's family who lost numerous aunts uncles and cousins in the camps. The earliest murders were done by the Einsatzgruppen.

Subject: RE: BS: Holocaust memorial day
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Jan 23 - 09:09 PM

Mom was liberated the day before she turned 16.

Subject: RE: BS: Holocaust memorial day
From: Senoufou
Date: 28 Jan 23 - 02:47 AM

I had a friend in Edinburgh who had been with the Red Cross when they liberated Belsen. She didn't speak much about her dreadful experiences, except to say that the stench of the camp was indescribable many miles away.
As a child, my parents took me to the cinema from time to time, and during the interval news footage, they showed some appalling scenes from the concentration camps. Piles of skeletal bodies etc. It made a huge impression on me.
I was very sad to see the News last night about the attacks on a synagogue in Israel. When will peace prevail in the world? And it's true Steve, wonderful to have the accounts of their experiences by very old survivors.
I always put a little night-light candle on our front doorstep on Holocaust night, out of respect and sadness at what went on in those days.

Subject: RE: BS: Holocaust memorial day
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Jan 23 - 05:36 AM

We had a candle too.

Subject: RE: BS: Holocaust memorial day - January 27
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Feb 23 - 08:35 PM

For the record, International Holocaust Remembrance Day is January 27. 27 January was chosen to commemorate the date when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945. If you visit Krakow, I highly recommend that you include a visit to Auschwitz. It's a sad but moving experience.