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27 Oct 20, 02:55 PM |
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What a gift to be able to pass onto others, your knowledge and compassion on the history. I was booked to go to Krakow too in September as felt for a long time I needed to go. Ive watched many programmes on Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. It wasn't until recently I realised what the former use of Trenchard barracks in Celle was in Germany. My 1st husband was stationed there and I visited a few times in my late teens. Never knowing its dark history and relationship to Bergen.
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27 Oct 20, 03:55 PM |
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We were looking at booking again for next December to line up with the Christmas markets, but I was due to have surgery at the start of 2021, but that's now looking more likely that it will be pushed back to the end of the year so I don't want to book anything yet. We paid for my parents to go for their Christmas present a few years back and they have a fantastic time (aside from the emotions of the camp)
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27 Oct 20, 04:40 PM |
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Very Serious Dibber
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Thank you for sharing details of your work. Education is the only way to fight ignorance and hate, and is a really good way to commemorate victims of the Holocaust. This is becoming increasingly important as there are fewer survivors left to share their stories.
Thank you for sharing your story. How very sad that mother and daughter were never reunited in their lives, but lovely that you are now able to reconnect with your relatives (albeit virtually). I think individual stories like these really 'bring home' the tragedy that was (and is) the Holocaust. I think this is a really important point. Like many children in Israel in the 1970s and 1980s, I grew up in the shadows of the Holocaust and have been exposed to some content (graphic or not) which has haunted me for years after (I remember leaving the cinema half way through 'For Those I Loved', I must have only been 11 or 12 years old and just couldn't process it all emotionally). I think Holocaust education has since developed and changed, but the emphasis on age-appropriate content is certainly something I keep in mind when I discuss this with my daughter. I've always felt the same, but as I get older I've begun to question whether this is something I ought to do after all? |
27 Oct 20, 05:09 PM |
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Very Serious Dibber
Join Date: Mar 16
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nadya - So very sad that each looked for each other but didn’t find each other in their lifetime. I hope you meet your new family soon xx
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27 Oct 20, 05:18 PM |
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Join Date: Aug 06
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Thanks,it was very bittersweet to find out mums origins, she looked and wondered her whole life and after she died we continued to try and find out,hard when there was no concrete details before mums adoption.I hope they both know each other now somehow,and that we get to meet my aunts and family.
Had the sad news yesterday that my aunts cancer has returned,praying that she recovers. |
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27 Oct 20, 05:21 PM |
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Join Date: Aug 06
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27 Oct 20, 05:22 PM |
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We were very fortunate to take our boys (aged 16 and 13) to Kraków and Auschwitz in February half term just before lockdown.
I grew up with stories of the war from my Grandad who served in Burma and my Nan who survived the Blitz here in Exeter, sadly they both passed away before my boys were born, but they instilled in me how important it was for us never ever to forget. It was therefore important to me to take them to Auschwitz to help them realise the enormity of the awful things that happened, so that future generations never ever forget. Thank you so very much for the vital work you do to help us always remember - I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a job that I would find so fascinating, harrowing and rewarding in equal measures - well done you! Xx |
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27 Oct 20, 05:24 PM |
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Very Serious Dibber
Join Date: Mar 16
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Oh no, your poor Aunt. I would like to believe they have found each other now ❤️.
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27 Oct 20, 05:29 PM |
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Apprentice Imagineer
Join Date: Sep 06
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This has been such an interesting post - from the original post describing their job to all the contributions by others. It sounds ‘wrong’ to say it but it’s such a difference to some recent posts which have turned abusive and rude. I’ll say it again - so interesting.
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27 Oct 20, 08:14 PM |
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Some of the Belsen footage is so harrowing, I can't watch it.
One of the things I often get when I've been on a trip is "did you have a nice time" and then people look horrified as they realise where I've been. I really want to visit USHMM in Washington, trying to persuade my husband but he's not as keen, might have to do a solo trip when we can travel again. That's the million dollar question isn't it? It's such a complicated site with a complex history. I can totally understand why it would be so difficult to visit with personal connections, it's hard enough with none. When I first visited Auschwitz I was quite shocked by some Israeli youngsters who were visiting as they were singing and draped in flags, A Jewish friend saw my discomfort and said, just think about it, they are putting 2 fingers up to Hitler and the Nazis who wanted to wipe them all out. They are showing that the Nazis failed.
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