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ComradeMan
26th January 2010, 19:53
27th January- International Holocaust Memorial Day
Il Giorno della Memoria
יום הזיכרון הבינלאומי לשואה

Lest we forget....

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Aushwitz_I_gas_chamber_memorial.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Aushwitz_I_gas_chamber_memorial.jpg)

Auschwitz I gas chamber memorial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aushwitz_I_gas_chamber_memorial.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aushwitz_I_gas_chamber_memorial.jpg)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/German_concentration_camp_chart_of_prisoner_markin gs.jpg/434px-German_concentration_camp_chart_of_prisoner_markin gs.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/German_concentration_camp_chart_of_prisoner_markin gs.jpg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:German_concentration_camp_chart_of_prisoner_m arkings.jpg
ComradeMan
26th January 2010, 21:01
Is this marked in your country? Where you are?
Bud Struggle
26th January 2010, 21:59
Not particularly here in America. I'm sure it is amoun the Jewish community--but not in general.
ComradeMan
26th January 2010, 22:08
Not particularly here in America. I'm sure it is amoun the Jewish community--but not in general.


Why not? :confused: The Holocaust wasn't just about the Jews even though they were the major victims.

This links shows the commemorations in Italy
http://www.lager.it/giorno_memoria.html

I found this too for other countries
At the USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) in Washington, DC, at Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem, Israel and in 2010 the Annual National Commemoration will return to London. The theme will be "The Legacy of Hope".

In Italy schools usually have memorial events and education about the Holocaust too.
Dimentio
26th January 2010, 22:12
Some years ago, it was a big thing in Sweden. In the early 2000's, every school-child in the primary received a free book about the Holocaust, and an authority - "Forum för Levande Historia" - was established to spread the knowledge about the Holocaust to Swedish school-children and the general public.
danyboy27
27th January 2010, 00:31
i just learned that today.

i was aware of the holocaust tho.

watched shindler list this weekend.
Dr Mindbender
27th January 2010, 01:06
*waits for thread to turn into Palestine/Israel point scoring contest* :rolleyes:
ComradeMan
27th January 2010, 09:54
*waits for thread to turn into Palestine/Israel point scoring contest* :rolleyes:

I hope not, and I am sure people will be intelligent, mature and thoughtful enough not to do that.

Perhaps in Italy it is more "felt" than in the US. There was a death camp in Italy near Trieste and of course Italy cannot avoid its collaboration with Hitler either. Nevertheless, I think the Holocaust is a vital lesson and warning to the world. Like I heard said, the only thing worse than Auschwitz would be if people forgot about Auschwitz.
Sasha
27th January 2010, 11:22
here they read out loud all the names of the dutch people perished in the extermination camps. took them several days.
ComradeMan
27th January 2010, 22:22
Miep Gies
Feb 15 1909- Jan 11 2010

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Miep_Gies.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Miep_Gies.jpg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miep_Gies


R.I.P.
Bud Struggle
27th January 2010, 22:28
^^^A brave and good woman. She will be missed.


The minor planet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_planet) 99949 Miepgies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99949_Miepgies) is named in her honour. Good for her!
ComradeMan
27th January 2010, 22:33
^^^A brave and good woman. She will be missed.

Good for her!


And all the others too...
Bud Struggle
27th January 2010, 22:57
And all the others too...

Yes. One of those Totalitarian guys (I forget whom ;) ) said that a single death is a tragedy but a million deaths are a statistic. It's best for us the living to remember every death--every tragedy.
ComradeMan
27th January 2010, 23:14
Yes. One of those Totalitarian guys (I forget whom ;) ) said that a single death is a tragedy but a million deaths are a statistic. It's best for us the living to remember every death--every tragedy.

I agree. One death is too many.... He who kills one kills the world and he who saves one saves all of humanity. It doesn't matter how many and it is a sad reality that we have become so brutalised that all of these people become statistics, that people even want to quibble about the numbers...