Holocaust Victims

[AJE]

The term Holocaust is widely taken to refer to the extermination of the European Jews by the Nazis. Once the nature and scale of the event became known, we all cried out Never Again or have we? Since this event gave us its name, our understanding has altered: we have come to realize that this was not unique in 20th Century history and that Jews were not its only victims. :cry:

Anyone who hasn't read the book by Elie Wiesel "Night" really needs to in order to comprehend tragedy, which beheld one survivor. No other individual is so identified with the Holocaust, its memory and its prevention as Wiesel.

Quote 9: "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.... Never shall I forget those moments, which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." Chapter 3, pg. 32

Years ago I read this book and it really did a number to me, since then I have come to identify that America too isn't without our own faults of our own holocaust and segregation of people. For example the Blacks, Native Americans are the most familiar examples but have you ever thought about when wars occur who are the people under suspicion?

:arrow: Fact: Did you know Wisconsin newspapers used to print in German, schools were still taught in German, English was a second language for many families and then WWII happened…?

Anyway I’d like to hear from other bubbler members what your feel is for this tragedy. Please feel free to post-historical articles, news clips and as always your voices.

[AJE]

Posted September 22, 2006

Holocaust survivor Fela Warschau dies

Native of Poland made Sheboygan her home after World War II

By Janet Ortegon
Sheboygan Press staff


Fela Warschau was a tiny woman with a soft voice, a kind smile and a horrific story.


Warschau, a Holocaust survivor who spent the last 20 years traveling around Wisconsin to share her story, died Wednesday at 79.

For the complete article please see...
http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbc...73257733041900

:arrow: For the past five years my father was taking his history students down for audience with Fela Warschau. I asked him this morning what he felt about losing this terrific speaker and he said, "Her piece of History will never be forgotten." Although I have never seen her touching epilogue of what happened I have seen two other individuals and have hear their survival while I was a student in College.

[Crys]

It's sad that she died. I never met her, but the most important thing you can do as a survivor of that kind of terror is to make sure that everyone knows it not only can happen, but does.

I'm afraid that we've already forgotten a lot of the lessons we learned in the World Wars. Soon there won't be anyone left who remembers first hand how the Jews, gays, dissenters, and others were treated in Germany, or the less horrendous but still despicable way that anyone German-esque or Japanese-esque was herded into an internment camp in this country. We're already forgetting that it happens, even as it escalates again in this country with Muslims or anyone who might look vaguely Middle Eastern.