Holocaust Memorial

Yes venus you are right.

I've been looking at genocides since WW11 and these are the figures. These people need our rememberance too.

Cambodia. There were 7million of population in 1970.

4million of these died. A total catastrophe

Rwanda in 100 days up to 2million were slaughtered

Bosnia -the biggest mass genocide in Europe sine WW11

100 K were slaughtered

Darfur

480K.

It is part of my families history but can't bear to visited the death camps.

What unspeakable cruelty that took place there should never be forgotten. . . but unfortuantely history has a way of repeating itself.

I don't think that anyone will forget about it, there is so much information now, and all schoolchildren seem to have talks about it and visits to museums have exhibitions.
All Jewish people in particular, live with memories of what went on.
The nearest that the world came to it again ( not even close, though) was the camps and mass murders of villagers in the former Yugoslavian countries.

I have often thought I would like to visit these places but whilst I would like to go to pay my respects part of me feels like it is turning into a tourist attraction, I'm sure many of us have seen the photos on social media showing grinning tourists taking selfies.

Have never visited, but have read and seen pictures of the Nazi concentration camps and what went on there.Thankfully, the world has not seen a repitition since of such planned evil and on such a scale, since.

I said to my DH yesterday that I would like to visit Auschwitz. Even saying it sounded wrong but I agree that we should never forget. There was a review of a new book on the subject in yesterda's Mail on Sunday which apparently reveals untold horrors.

Oh Cari!! And me. My son was saying that he felt very difficult, as he feels it is so important to see these places and try to understand how it got to such a bad place where one human can do such unspeakable things to another human. But he also felt a bit like a voyeur and I can so understand what he was saying.

I think that these things can happen in stages each stage worse than the last until the unthinkable happens. As a human race - we all share the same DNA- we need to learn to say enough!!

Yes Cari, it was incredibly moving

Yes, I did Cari and I was in tears for most of it.